Definition of Ideality

1. Noun. The quality of being ideal.

Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Ideal, Ideal

Definition of Ideality

1. n. The quality or state of being ideal.

Definition of Ideality

1. Noun. The quality or state of being ideal. ¹

2. Noun. The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection. ¹

3. Noun. The conceptive faculty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ideality

1. the state of being perfect; something idealized [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Ideality

1. 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. 3. The conceptive faculty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideality

idealess
idealessness
idealisation
idealisations
idealise
idealised
idealises
idealising
idealism
idealisms
idealist
idealistic
idealistically
idealists
idealities
ideality (current term)
idealizable
idealization
idealizations
idealize
idealized
idealizer
idealizers
idealizes
idealizing
idealless
ideally
idealogic
idealogical
idealogies

Literary usage of Ideality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Representative Significance of Form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1909)
"SIGNIFICANCE AS ATTRIBUTABLE TO MENTAL ACTION: RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS CHARACTERIZED BY FAITH ; ARTISTIC BY ideality. Connection of Thought—Faith, ..."

2. Heads and Faces, and how to Study Them: A Manual of Phrenology and by Nelson Sizer, Henry Shipman Drayton (1885)
"Moreover, ideality, acting with Spirituality, is an element of imagination, and in conjunction with Constructiveness gives creative fancy and invention, ..."

3. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1840)
"SAMPSON ON THE PRIMARY' FUNCTION OF ideality. To the Editor of the American Phrenological Journal. London, April Hili, 1840. Dear Sir,— The editor of the ..."

4. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary by Immanuel Kant (1896)
"The Fourth Paralogism of ideality (with Regard to External Relations) That, the existence of ... This uncertainty I call the ideality of external phenomena, ..."

5. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"Nature abounds in beauty and splendour to gratify ideality—a proof of pure beneficence in the Creator ; for it is a pleasure of unmixed gratuity, ..."

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