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ideality

[ahy-dee-al-i-tee] / ˌaɪ diˈæl ɪ ti /




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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

The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, if space has, as Kant also assumes, transcendental ideality, plurality is not conceivable; hence, the moral difference of characters, and the science of Ethics itself, could have no transcendental significance.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

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

They say, Love is his own avenger: and perhaps I shall be punished by finding my idealities realised in one who will not care for me.

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

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

Esther had dealt a blow to his fastidious idealities.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown




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