The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

(uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal. / (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection. / The conceptive faculty.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idealize

present participle of idealize

The state or quality of being ideal; the ideality.

plural of ideality

plural of idealism

plural of idealizer

A person who idealizes. / (algebra) For a ring R and an ideal m of R, the set of all u ∈ Frac(R) such that um ⊂ m, where Frac(R) is the fraction field of R.

(philosophy) A school of philosophy first proposed by Immanuel Kant. It can be juxtaposed with transcendental realism in that it views things in terms of how they appear to the actor rather than how they actually are.