idealityn.

Brit.

/ˌʌɪdɪˈalᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌaɪdiˈælədi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ideal adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < ideal adj. + -ity suffix. Compare French idéalité (1687 (in the passage translated in quot. 1713 at sense 1) in sense ‘ideal existence in the theological sense’, 1770 in sense ‘perfect state of existence of a thing’), 1786 (in the passage translated in quot. 1793 at sense 2) or earlier in sense ‘quality of being an abstract idea’, 1833 or earlier in sense ‘thing which exists only in imagination, idealized conception’ (in this sense frequently in plural idéalités )). Compare earlier idea n., ideal n.

1. Philosophy and Theology (a) Ideal existence in the Platonic or theological sense; the quality of being ideal in this sense: see idea n. 1a, ideal adj. 1. †(b) The faculty of forming archetypal ideas. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience > types of

presciencec1384

foreknowledge1535

ideality1701

co-consciousness1903

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. Pref. 11 The Divine Ideality or that intelligible reason in the wisdom of God whereby things were made.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. 282 When they [sc. creatures]..had no existence but in the bosom of his own ideality.

?1705 T. D'Urfey Ess. towards Theory of Intelligible World 65 Wisdom, saith The Lexicon Zohar, is The Beginning of actuated Ideality.

1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy I. x. 163 All Creatures..were invented and form'd by him out of pure and absolute nothing, that is to say, out of a Non-ideal and Non-subsisting State, and God gave 'em what Ideality [Fr. idealité], and what Reality he pleas'd.

1838 Amer. Bibl. Repository Oct. 469 The prohibition of image worship must have originated in an age when the notion of the abstract ideality of God had been distinctly formed.

1853 H. C. Preston tr. F. G. J. Henlé Treat. Gen. Pathol. Introd. 84 Everlasting is only the copula, the band which joins the individual with the unending ideality.

1920 Philos. Rev. 29 241 All participants in the drama bore the mark of the ‘creatures of God’, the mark of essentiality and ideality, being a cast of idea.

1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning ii. 43 Plato has evolved a realm of pure ideality, also described as physis, in which these name-souls dwell.

1967 M. Farber Found. Phenomenol. (ed. 3) p. viii He [sc. Husserl] could not have been expected to bridge the gap between facts and essences or ideal forms, any more than any other thinkers deriving from Plato, all the way down to Whitehead. The concepts of essence, ideality, whole, part, etc., are devices for handling problems of experience.

2001 G. Marino Kierkegaard in Present Age i. 20 Though no theory is provided, it is patent that he takes ideality to be everything existence is not, namely, universal and unchanging.

2. Philosophy. The quality of being an abstract idea; imaginary or non-real nature; existence in idea only (opposed to reality): see ideal adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > something unreal > nature of

notionality1653

ideality1793

subjectivity1803

abstractedness1878

1793 tr. C. G. Selle in Monthly Rev. 11 App. 498 On the Reality and Ideality [Fr. idéalité] of the Objects of our Knowledge.

1819 J. Richardson tr. I. Kant Prolegomena to Metaph. 59 My doctrine of the ideality of space and time.

1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic Prolegomena xxii. 174 This organism of thought, as the living reality or gist of the external world and the world within us, is termed the Idea. The Idea is the ‘reality’ and the ‘ideality’ of the world or totality, considered as a process beyond time.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. v. 88 The ideality of time and space.

1917 M. Sinclair Def. Idealism vi. 230 These purely mathematical operations have every mark and sign of ideality, of being ‘the work of Thought’.

1962 C. Smith tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Phenomenol.of Perception 50 The ideality of the object, the objectification of the living body, the placing of spirit in an axiological dimension having no common measure with nature, such is the transparent philosophy arrived at by pushing further along the route of knowledge opened up by perception.

2006 S. Earnshaw Existentialism ii. ix. 138 It is only when ‘reality’ and ‘ideality’ are brought into relation with each other that things like ‘true’ and ‘false’ and ‘possibility’ appear.

3. The quality of being an ideal or idealization; ideal or imaginative character, especially of a work of art: see ideal adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > idealized conception, ideal > in art

ideality1808

1808 J. Farington Diary (1925) 16 May V. 62 He [sc. Coleridge] had been thinking for a word to express the distinct character of Milton as a Poet, but not finding one that wd. express it, He should make one ‘Ideality’.

1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man III. x. 332 The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xii. 315 No invention of the most ludicrously-florid fancy can surpass in incongruous ideality the real, and substantial, and solidly-stupid old watchman.

1879 W. Knight Stud. Philos. & Lit. 291 The infelicities..in Wordsworth's style..its sinking from ideality into matter-of-factness.

1919 I. Babbitt Rousseau & Romanticism (1924) vii. 240 Schiller..relaxed the rationalistic rigor of Kant in favor of feeling and associated even more emphatically the ideality and creativeness of art with its free imaginative play.

1946 W. M. Ivins Art & Geom. ii. 34 The Greek unwillingness or incapacity..to cope with the peculiar psychic tensions, the this-and-no-otherness, of personality has long been acclaimed as a sign of loftiness of conception and ideality of artistry.

1963 N. Wright Horatio Greenough iv. 173 The essential ideality of his conception was misunderstood.

2004 R. Barcan Nudity i. 33 The artist's work de-particularizes the model's nakedness, lifting it into ideality.

4. Originally and chiefly in phrenology: the faculty of conceiving of the ideal, the capacity to form an idea of something perfect; the imaginative faculty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun]

sightc1175

thoughtc1175

imagination1340

thinking1340

conceptiona1387

imaginativea1398

phantasm1490

concept1536

fetch1549

conceit1556

conceiving1559

fancy1581

notion1647

fantastic1764

ideality1815

ideoplasty1884

phantastikon1917

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun]

ideality1815

transcendentalism1833

1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 417 This faculty gives a peculiar tinge to all other faculties; it makes them in every thing to aspire to ideality. It is a sentiment, and,..the opposite of circumspection; it renders us enthusiasts, while circumspection stops our career by saying, Take care. I call this organ that of Ideality.

1828 G. Combe Constit. Man ii. §4 Ideality delights in perfection from the pure pleasure of contemplating it.

1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 287 This is the emotion of Hope, which is ideality coupled with belief.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiv. 359 Poetry or ideality, and untruth are..very different things.

1922 A. N. Whitehead Princ. Relativity ii. 20 Divest consciousness of its ideality, such as its logical, emotional, aesthetic and moral apprehensions, and what is left is sense-awareness.

1968 Nineteenth-Cent. Fiction 23 22 Large Ideality—an intellectual ‘poetic’ faculty—created bumps high on the forehead to produce the noble brow of the idealized artist.

2007 Behavioral Healthcare (Nexis) Jan. Not all phrenologists agreed on the number of organs. One list included the following:..Ideality.

a. Something which exists only as a mental conception, something ideal or imaginary; an idealized conception.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > idealized conception, ideal

ideaa1586

should-be1790

ideal1817

ideality1825

idealism1861

1825 Philomathic Jrnl. Oct. 244 But the imaginative come with their fairy wands, and convert the facts of the one, and the truths of the other, into idealities that have no prototypes in nature.

1844 R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 39 [They] commenced their married life with amiable idealities about ‘love in a cottage’.

1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. ii. i. 221 Cicero..is not a mere ideality, he is a man and a brother.

1883 Harper's Mag. July 230/1 The idealities in which he lived did not hinder the lad attending to his duties in real life.

1921 Amer. Anthropologist 23 79 The interest in the actualities of a civilization is as justified as in its idealities.

1965 Mod. Philol. 63 207/2 They demonstrate their uniqueness by their unique subservience to an ideality external to themselves: family honor, the state, Christianity, the notion of vertu, and so on.

2006 I. Callus in S. Herbrechter & M. Higgins Returning (to) Communities i. 35 From this catalogue of Europe's idealities and directions Derrida raises the issue of cultural identity.

†b. = ideal n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > perfect person or thing > ideal

idea1590

ideal1623

idealty1635

ideality1860

1860 T. L. Peacock in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 102/1 The intellectual qualities which constituted his ideality of the partner of his life.

†6. The quality of expressing some idea; significance. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]

significancy1577

significance1585

expressiveness1655

meaningness1753

pregnancy1839

ideality1845

meaningfulness1904

expressivity1944

1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. II. App. iii. 218 That crux of painful antiquaries, the origin and ideality of the far-famed Round Towers.

7. Physics and Chemistry. The fact or degree of conformity with a theoretical ideal state, or with the characteristics or behaviour expected under ideal conditions. Cf. nonideality n.

ΚΠ

1905 Science 22 Sept. 363/2 The applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics are ubiquitous. As interesting instances we may mention the conception of an ideal gas and its properties; the departure of physical gases from ideality as shown in Kelvin and Joule's plug experiment; [etc.].

1962 E. L. Eliel Stereochem. Carbon Compounds iv. 43 Significant deviations from ideality have been observed in some optically active liquids capable of hydrogen bonding.

1987 A. Nickon & E. F. Silversmith Org. Chem.: Name Game xiv. 177 The I-strain is less troublesome in the sp³ addition product than in the sp² ketone, because the fixed ring angle (ca. 60°) deviates less from ideality.

2002 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 458 1164 Given..the deviations from ideality assumptions in the classical theory, we expect the CARS temperature measurements to follow the form of the equation rather than its ideal case solution.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ideality
释义	idealityn. Brit. /ˌʌɪdɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌaɪdiˈælədi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ideal adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: < ideal adj. + -ity suffix. Compare French idéalité (1687 (in the passage translated in quot. 1713 at sense 1) in sense ‘ideal existence in the theological sense’, 1770 in sense ‘perfect state of existence of a thing’), 1786 (in the passage translated in quot. 1793 at sense 2) or earlier in sense ‘quality of being an abstract idea’, 1833 or earlier in sense ‘thing which exists only in imagination, idealized conception’ (in this sense frequently in plural idéalités )). Compare earlier idea n., ideal n. 1. Philosophy and Theology (a) Ideal existence in the Platonic or theological sense; the quality of being ideal in this sense: see idea n. 1a, ideal adj. 1. †(b) The faculty of forming archetypal ideas. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience > types of presciencec1384 foreknowledge1535 ideality1701 co-consciousness1903 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. Pref. 11 The Divine Ideality or that intelligible reason in the wisdom of God whereby things were made. 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. 282 When they [sc. creatures]..had no existence but in the bosom of his own ideality. ?1705 T. D'Urfey Ess. towards Theory of Intelligible World 65 Wisdom, saith The Lexicon Zohar, is The Beginning of actuated Ideality. 1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy I. x. 163 All Creatures..were invented and form'd by him out of pure and absolute nothing, that is to say, out of a Non-ideal and Non-subsisting State, and God gave 'em what Ideality [Fr. idealité], and what Reality he pleas'd. 1838 Amer. Bibl. Repository Oct. 469 The prohibition of image worship must have originated in an age when the notion of the abstract ideality of God had been distinctly formed. 1853 H. C. Preston tr. F. G. J. Henlé Treat. Gen. Pathol. Introd. 84 Everlasting is only the copula, the band which joins the individual with the unending ideality. 1920 Philos. Rev. 29 241 All participants in the drama bore the mark of the ‘creatures of God’, the mark of essentiality and ideality, being a cast of idea. 1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning ii. 43 Plato has evolved a realm of pure ideality, also described as physis, in which these name-souls dwell. 1967 M. Farber Found. Phenomenol. (ed. 3) p. viii He [sc. Husserl] could not have been expected to bridge the gap between facts and essences or ideal forms, any more than any other thinkers deriving from Plato, all the way down to Whitehead. The concepts of essence, ideality, whole, part, etc., are devices for handling problems of experience. 2001 G. Marino Kierkegaard in Present Age i. 20 Though no theory is provided, it is patent that he takes ideality to be everything existence is not, namely, universal and unchanging. 2. Philosophy. The quality of being an abstract idea; imaginary or non-real nature; existence in idea only (opposed to reality): see ideal adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > something unreal > nature of notionality1653 ideality1793 subjectivity1803 abstractedness1878 1793 tr. C. G. Selle in Monthly Rev. 11 App. 498 On the Reality and Ideality [Fr. idéalité] of the Objects of our Knowledge. 1819 J. Richardson tr. I. Kant Prolegomena to Metaph. 59 My doctrine of the ideality of space and time. 1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic Prolegomena xxii. 174 This organism of thought, as the living reality or gist of the external world and the world within us, is termed the Idea. The Idea is the ‘reality’ and the ‘ideality’ of the world or totality, considered as a process beyond time. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. v. 88 The ideality of time and space. 1917 M. Sinclair Def. Idealism vi. 230 These purely mathematical operations have every mark and sign of ideality, of being ‘the work of Thought’. 1962 C. Smith tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Phenomenol.of Perception 50 The ideality of the object, the objectification of the living body, the placing of spirit in an axiological dimension having no common measure with nature, such is the transparent philosophy arrived at by pushing further along the route of knowledge opened up by perception. 2006 S. Earnshaw Existentialism ii. ix. 138 It is only when ‘reality’ and ‘ideality’ are brought into relation with each other that things like ‘true’ and ‘false’ and ‘possibility’ appear. 3. The quality of being an ideal or idealization; ideal or imaginative character, especially of a work of art: see ideal adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > idealized conception, ideal > in art ideality1808 1808 J. Farington Diary (1925) 16 May V. 62 He [sc. Coleridge] had been thinking for a word to express the distinct character of Milton as a Poet, but not finding one that wd. express it, He should make one ‘Ideality’. 1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man III. x. 332 The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xii. 315 No invention of the most ludicrously-florid fancy can surpass in incongruous ideality the real, and substantial, and solidly-stupid old watchman. 1879 W. Knight Stud. Philos. & Lit. 291 The infelicities..in Wordsworth's style..its sinking from ideality into matter-of-factness. 1919 I. Babbitt Rousseau & Romanticism (1924) vii. 240 Schiller..relaxed the rationalistic rigor of Kant in favor of feeling and associated even more emphatically the ideality and creativeness of art with its free imaginative play. 1946 W. M. Ivins Art & Geom. ii. 34 The Greek unwillingness or incapacity..to cope with the peculiar psychic tensions, the this-and-no-otherness, of personality has long been acclaimed as a sign of loftiness of conception and ideality of artistry. 1963 N. Wright Horatio Greenough iv. 173 The essential ideality of his conception was misunderstood. 2004 R. Barcan Nudity i. 33 The artist's work de-particularizes the model's nakedness, lifting it into ideality. 4. Originally and chiefly in phrenology: the faculty of conceiving of the ideal, the capacity to form an idea of something perfect; the imaginative faculty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] sightc1175 thoughtc1175 imagination1340 thinking1340 conceptiona1387 imaginativea1398 phantasm1490 concept1536 fetch1549 conceit1556 conceiving1559 fancy1581 notion1647 fantastic1764 ideality1815 ideoplasty1884 phantastikon1917 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] ideality1815 transcendentalism1833 1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 417 This faculty gives a peculiar tinge to all other faculties; it makes them in every thing to aspire to ideality. It is a sentiment, and,..the opposite of circumspection; it renders us enthusiasts, while circumspection stops our career by saying, Take care. I call this organ that of Ideality. 1828 G. Combe Constit. Man ii. §4 Ideality delights in perfection from the pure pleasure of contemplating it. 1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 287 This is the emotion of Hope, which is ideality coupled with belief. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiv. 359 Poetry or ideality, and untruth are..very different things. 1922 A. N. Whitehead Princ. Relativity ii. 20 Divest consciousness of its ideality, such as its logical, emotional, aesthetic and moral apprehensions, and what is left is sense-awareness. 1968 Nineteenth-Cent. Fiction 23 22 Large Ideality—an intellectual ‘poetic’ faculty—created bumps high on the forehead to produce the noble brow of the idealized artist. 2007 Behavioral Healthcare (Nexis) Jan. Not all phrenologists agreed on the number of organs. One list included the following:..Ideality. 5. a. Something which exists only as a mental conception, something ideal or imaginary; an idealized conception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [noun] > idealized conception, ideal ideaa1586 should-be1790 ideal1817 ideality1825 idealism1861 1825 Philomathic Jrnl. Oct. 244 But the imaginative come with their fairy wands, and convert the facts of the one, and the truths of the other, into idealities that have no prototypes in nature. 1844 R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 39 [They] commenced their married life with amiable idealities about ‘love in a cottage’. 1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. ii. i. 221 Cicero..is not a mere ideality, he is a man and a brother. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 230/1 The idealities in which he lived did not hinder the lad attending to his duties in real life. 1921 Amer. Anthropologist 23 79 The interest in the actualities of a civilization is as justified as in its idealities. 1965 Mod. Philol. 63 207/2 They demonstrate their uniqueness by their unique subservience to an ideality external to themselves: family honor, the state, Christianity, the notion of vertu, and so on. 2006 I. Callus in S. Herbrechter & M. Higgins Returning (to) Communities i. 35 From this catalogue of Europe's idealities and directions Derrida raises the issue of cultural identity. †b. = ideal n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > perfect person or thing > ideal idea1590 ideal1623 idealty1635 ideality1860 1860 T. L. Peacock in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 102/1 The intellectual qualities which constituted his ideality of the partner of his life. †6. The quality of expressing some idea; significance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun] significancy1577 significance1585 expressiveness1655 meaningness1753 pregnancy1839 ideality1845 meaningfulness1904 expressivity1944 1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. II. App. iii. 218 That crux of painful antiquaries, the origin and ideality of the far-famed Round Towers. 7. Physics and Chemistry. The fact or degree of conformity with a theoretical ideal state, or with the characteristics or behaviour expected under ideal conditions. Cf. nonideality n. ΚΠ 1905 Science 22 Sept. 363/2 The applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics are ubiquitous. As interesting instances we may mention the conception of an ideal gas and its properties; the departure of physical gases from ideality as shown in Kelvin and Joule's plug experiment; [etc.]. 1962 E. L. Eliel Stereochem. Carbon Compounds iv. 43 Significant deviations from ideality have been observed in some optically active liquids capable of hydrogen bonding. 1987 A. Nickon & E. F. Silversmith Org. Chem.: Name Game xiv. 177 The I-strain is less troublesome in the sp³ addition product than in the sp² ketone, because the fixed ring angle (ca. 60°) deviates less from ideality. 2002 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 458 1164 Given..the deviations from ideality assumptions in the classical theory, we expect the CARS temperature measurements to follow the form of the equation rather than its ideal case solution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1701
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