IDEALISM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • elevated ideals or conduct
   • the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
   Synonym(s)
   • high-mindedness (what does high-mindedness mean?)
   • noble-mindedness (what does noble-mindedness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) idealism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • nobility (what does nobility mean?)
   • magnanimousness (what does magnanimousness mean?)
   • grandeur (what does grandeur mean?)
2. Meaning
   • impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
   Hypernyms(s) idealism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • impracticality (what does impracticality mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • romanticism (what does romanticism mean?)
   • knight errantry (what does knight errantry mean?)
   • quixotism (what does quixotism mean?)
3. Meaning
   • (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
   Hypernyms(s) idealism is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • philosophical doctrine (what does philosophical doctrine mean?)
   • philosophical theory (what does philosophical theory mean?)