ideality
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Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
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He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
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The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
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From criticism he borrows the ideality of the notions of space, time, substance, cause, and the idea of a moral absolute founded on purely moral motives.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
When the senses fall away, it is left, imperishable denizen of its own appropriate world of idealities.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
We may, perhaps, consider the Grecian gods as mere personifications and idealities, but those of the North are essentially real.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Were it the mere creation of our fancy, it might receive many of those embellishments at our hand with which we scruple not to adorn the shadowy idealities of fiction.
From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
Still, I can scarcely tell why, he does not complete my idealities.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock