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ideality

ideality

9.9
A state of being perfect or the best possible
  • noun
  • /aɪˈdiːəlɪti/
translation icon : idealidad
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • He tells us that ideality is the equilibrium of opposites.

  • 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

perfection
vsideality
97 3.7

A thing that has no mistakes and shows the best quality

focuses more on representing the best possible standard rather than only flawlessness
perfectness
vsideality
3.8

A state when something has no mistakes or faults

stresses representing the best possible standard beyond mere lack of defects
perfectivity
vsideality
  • Formal
9.9

A state of being complete and without fault

is used more broadly to mean the best possible quality rather than technical completeness

Antonyms

1.4

The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish

51 3.7

A small fault that makes someone or something less good

How Ideal

perfection
97 3.7
ideality
9.9
adequacy
6 3.7
imperfection
51 3.7

Surface Forms

ideality singular
idealities plural

Morphology

ideality = ideal (transparent) = ideal + ity

Standard nominalization: 'ideal' + '-ity' yields the state or quality of being ideal, which a typical learner can infer.

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.