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ideality
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality or state of being ideal. 2 (context uncountable English) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection. 3 The conceptive faculty.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being ideal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ideality \I`de*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Idealities . The quality or state of being ideal. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. (Phren.) The conceptive faculty.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ideality is a faculty from the discredited pseudoscientific discipline of phrenology . Ideality describes the disposition towards perfection, towards beauty and refinement in all aspects of life. It is localized on the temples, above and behind constructiveness ...
Usage examples of ideality.
The novel may deal wholly with an aristocracy, or wholly with another class, but it must idealize the nature it touches into art. The fault of the bourgeoisie novels, of which Heine complains, is not that they treated of one class only, and excluded a higher social range, but that they treated it without art and without ideality.
I am not recalling it because it is a conspicuous instance of the true realism that is touched with the ideality of genius, which is the immortal element in literature, but as an illustration of the other necessary quality in all productions of the human mind that remain age after age, and that is simplicity.
The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
The fault of the bourgeoisie novels, of which Heine complains, is not that they treated of one class only, and excluded a higher social range, but that they treated it without art and without ideality.
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality.