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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

The certitude of one's self, which issues from the suppression of mere consciousness, pronounces the object null: and the outlook of self-consciousness towards the object equally qualifies the abstract ideality of such self-consciousness as null.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

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

In dressing, she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy


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