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  • English Word Ide Definition Same as Id.
  • English Word Idea Definition A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
  • English Word Idea Definition A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
  • English Word Idea Definition A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
  • English Word Idea Definition A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
  • English Word Idea Definition Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
  • English Word Idea Definition The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
  • English Word Idea Definition A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
  • English Word Ideal Definition Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
  • English Word Ideal Definition Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
  • English Word Ideal Definition Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
  • English Word Ideal Definition Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
  • English Word Ideal Definition Imaginary.
  • English Word Ideal Definition A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
  • English Word Idealess Definition Destitute of an idea.
  • English Word Idealism Definition The quality or state of being ideal.
  • English Word Idealism Definition Conception of the ideal; imagery.
  • English Word Idealism Definition The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.
  • English Word Idealist Definition One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.
  • English Word Idealist Definition One who holds the doctrine of idealism.
  • English Word Idealistic Definition Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
  • English Word Idealities Definition of Ideality
  • English Word Ideality Definition The quality or state of being ideal.
  • English Word Ideality Definition The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
  • English Word Ideality Definition The conceptive faculty.
  • English Word Idealization Definition The act or process of idealizing.
  • English Word Idealization Definition The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
  • English Word Idealize Definition To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
  • English Word Idealize Definition To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.
  • English Word Idealize Definition To form ideals.