idealismi — meaning in English
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English meaning
- idealism noun The tendency to hold high, sometimes unrealistic, principles or hopes about how things should be.
Senses
idealismi is used for these senses in English:
- idealism The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
- idealism 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.
- idealism (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
idealism — full definition
- noun The tendency to hold high, sometimes unrealistic, principles or hopes about how things should be.
- noun In philosophy, the view that reality is fundamentally shaped by or dependent on the mind and its ideas.