Ideality
[,aidi'æliti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being ideal.
(n.) The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
(n.) The conceptive faculty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Imagination, conception, invention, fancy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fancy, creativeness, genius
ANT:Imitation, uninventiveness, unimaginativeness, copyism
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Examples
- Truthful we both were; he from pride and courage, I from a sort of abstract ideality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In respect of ideality, reverence, wonder, and other such phrenological attributes, it is no worse off than it used to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The court, in the inside, had evidently been arranged to gratify a picturesque and voluptuous ideality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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