Examples of “idealism” in a Sentence

noun The tendency to hold high, sometimes unrealistic, principles or hopes about how things should be.

• His youthful idealism led him to volunteer in a faraway village.
• Some people mistake idealism for naivety, but she kept believing in better schools.
• Her idealism made her want to fix every problem in the world at once.

noun In philosophy, the view that reality is fundamentally shaped by or dependent on the mind and its ideas.

• In philosophy class, we read about idealism and whether a tree exists unobserved.
• Idealism holds that the mind, not matter, is the basis of everything real.
• Berkeley's idealism argued that objects only exist as far as they are perceived.