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idealism

noun
  1. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

  2. The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.

  3. An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

    Similar: philosophical idealism

Synonymsphilosophical idealism
Antonymsmaterialism

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