idealism

Etymology
First attested 1796, from.

Noun

 * 1) The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
 * 2) The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
 * 3)  An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

Translations

 * Arabic:
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 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, idealistisuus
 * French:
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 * Ido:
 * Irish: idéalachas
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 리상주의(理想主義)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: idealizmas
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: idealizem
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Finnish: idealisointi, idealisaatio,
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 * Arabic: مِثَالِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: idealismus
 * Esperanto: ideismo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: idealismo
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:, , , भाववाद
 * Icelandic: hughyggja
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: idéalachas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, イデアリスム
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: idealizmas
 * Maori: angaparuhi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: idealizem
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:

Etymology
. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  (holding or striving towards ideals, sometimes unrealistic)