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First attested 1796, from ideal +‎ -ism.

• IPA(key): /ʌɪˈdɪəlɪz(ə)m/, /ʌɪˈdiːəlɪz(ə)m/

idealism (countable and uncountable, plural idealisms)

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.[1]
3. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
   Synonym: philosophical idealism
   Antonym: materialism

• absolute idealism

• epistemological idealism

• metaphysical idealism

• overidealism

• transcendental idealism

• unidealism

• idealist

• idealistic

• idealistically

• perfectionism

property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: idealisme (ca) m
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 理想主义 (zh) (lǐxiǎngzhǔyì)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: idealismi (fi), idealistisuus
• French: idéalisme (fr) m
• Galician: idealismo m
• German: Idealismus (de) m
• Greek: ιδεαλισμός (el) m (idealismós)
• Ido: idealismo (io)
• Irish: idéalachas m
• Italian: idealismo (it) m
• Japanese: 理想主義 (ja) (りそうしゅ​ぎ, risō shugi)
• Korean: 이상주의(理想主義) (ko) (isangjuui), 리상주의(理想主義) (risangjuui) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: îdealîzm (ku) f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: idealizmas m
• Polish: idealizm (pl) m
• Romanian: idealism (ro) n
• Russian: идеали́зм (ru) m (idealízm)
• Slovene: idealizem m
• Spanish: idealismo (es) m
• Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran
• Turkish: ülkücülük (tr), idealizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: ідеалі́зм (uk) m (idealízm)

an approach to philosophical enquiry

• Arabic: مِثَالِيَّة f (miṯāliyya)

• Armenian: իդեալիզմ (hy) (idealizm)

• Bulgarian: идеали́зъм (bg) m (idealízǎm)

• Catalan: idealisme (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 唯心主義 / 唯心主义 (zh) (wéixīnzhǔyì)

• Czech: idealismus m

• Esperanto: ideismo

• Finnish: idealismi (fi)

• French: idéalisme (fr) m

• Galician: idealismo m

• German: Idealismus (de) m

• Greek: ιδεαλισμός (el) m (idealismós)

• Hindi: प्रत्ययवाद (hi) (pratyayvād), विज्ञानवाद (hi) (vijñānvād), आदर्शवाद (hi) (ādarśavād), भाववाद (bhāvvād)

• Icelandic: hughyggja f

• Ido: idealismo (io)

• Indonesian: idealisme (id)

• Irish: idéalachas m

• Italian: idealismo (it) m

• Japanese: 観念論 (ja) (かんねんろん, kannenron), イデアリスム (idearizumu)

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: îdealîzm (ku) f

• Lithuanian: idealizmas m

• Māori: angaparuhi

• Polish: idealizm (pl) m

• Portuguese: idealismo (pt) m

• Romanian: idealism (ro) n

• Russian: идеали́зм (ru) m (idealízm)

• Serbo-Croatian: idealizam (sh) m

• Slovene: idealizem m

• Spanish: idealismo (es) m

• Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran

• Turkish: idealizm (tr)

• Ukrainian: ідеалі́зм (uk) m (idealízm)

• realism

• pragmatism

• materialism

• physicalism

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idealism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• “idealism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

1. ^ http://www.websters1913.com/words/Idealism

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Idealism”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 152.
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Borrowed from French idéalisme. Equivalent to ideal +‎ -ism.

idealism n (uncountable)

1. idealism

• idealist

idealism c

1. idealism (holding or striving towards ideals, sometimes unrealistic)
   • 1894, Gustaf Fröding, “Idealism och realism [Idealism and Realism]”, in Nya dikter [New Poems]:
     Nu är jag led vid tidens schism
     emellan jord och stjärnor.
     Vår idealism och realism
     de klyva [old present tense plural, usually _klyver_] våra hjärnor.
     Det ljugs, när porträtterat grus
     får namn av konst och fägring.
     En syn, som svävar skön och ljus
     i skyn, är sann som hägring.
     Men strunt är strunt och snus är snus,
     om ock i gyllne [gyllene] dosor,
     och rosor i ett sprucket krus
     är ändå alltid rosor.
     Now I am weary of the current [the time's] schism
     between earth and stars.
     Our idealism and realism
     they split our brains.
     People lie [it is lied], when portrayed dust [gravel, sometimes used figuratively like dust, especially in the past]
     gets called art and beauty ["gets name of" – archaic].
     A sight, that floats fair and bright
     in the sky, is true as a mirage.
     But nonsense is nonsense and snuff is snuff [fairly well-known line],
     if also in golden boxes [small boxes with a lid].
     And roses in a cracked jug
     are still always roses.
2. (philosophy) idealism

• idé

• ideal

• idealisera

• idealisk

• idealist

• idealistisk

• “idealism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

• “idealism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• “idealism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)