ideality
- noun
- /aɪˈdiːəlɪti/
- In art, achieving ideality means creating a form that represents the highest standard of beauty.
- ideality and reality
He tells us that ideality is the equilibrium of opposites.
- He tells us that ideality is the equilibrium of opposites.
- It's not being overcome yet in in reality, it's being overcome in, we could say in potential or in ideality.
Examples
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But the parallel set raised a second problem: Does the principle of ideality accomplished by joining elements of the beautiful also apply to the grotesque?
Academic text (2013) -
Such idealities, by their very nature, are composites that tend to accentuate the extremes.
Academic text (1991) -
This is the transition to the this actuality that is at this point, just an ideality, the insight of all.
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He tells us that ideality is the equilibrium of opposites.
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Moreover, ideality, the commitment to the Real, the enduring, the True, builds character and, hence, also has its "real world" political uses.
Academic text (2002) -
By insisting on "la verite" or the ideality of art, Frenhofer requires that art transcend reality.
Academic text (2000) -
Indeed, such a possibility of systematic absolutism is reflected in the schemes of his mad projectors as a kind of delusive ideality.
Fiction book (1991) -
Those recent writers who have attributed to intentionalist editors the notion that there is a single ideal text for each work have blurred two separate issues—singleness and ideality.
Academic text (1996) -
Ideality, with the power of analysis, is shown in his very broad, high, and massive forehead—a forehead which would have delighted GALL, one of the founders of phrenology, beyond measure.
Academic text (1999) -
But what more than this makes me hope that New England will shed light upon these subjects is the subtlety and ideality of the Yankee mind as seen in its uncultivated state. The Scots and the Germans are the peoples with whom the New Englanders ought to be compared, as they are the metaphysical nations.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A thing that has no mistakes and shows the best quality
A state when something has no mistakes or faults
A state of being complete and without fault
Antonyms
How Ideal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ideality comes from ideal, which goes back to the Greek idea meaning 'form' or 'image', plus the ending -ity that turns it into a 'state'. So, ideality is the idea of being the perfect form or the best example of something.