Definition of Idealesm
Idealism, that view of the universe which, in opposition to
Materialism ( q. v.), refers everything to and derives everything
from a spiritual root; is Subjective if traced no further back than the
ego, and Objective if traced back to the non-ego likewise, its
counterpart, or other, in the objective world. Idealism in art is art
more or less at work in the region of the ideal in comparative disregard
of the actual.
- Wikipedia
I*de"al*ism, n. 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.
I*de"al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
idéalisme.] 1. The quality or
state of being ideal.
2. Conception of the ideal;
imagery.
3. (Philos.) The system or theory that
denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no
rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and
their relations.
I*de"al*ism, n. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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