ideal'istic
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| —n | |
| 1. | belief in or pursuance of ideals |
| 2. | the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are |
| 3. | materialism Compare dualism any of a group of philosophical doctrines that share the monistic view that material objects and the external world do not exist in reality independently of the human mind but are variously creations of the mind or constructs of ideas |
| i'dealist | |
| —n | |
| ideal'istic | |
| —adj | |
| ideal'istically | |
| —adv | |
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