idealnessn.
/ʌɪˈdɪəlnəs/, /ʌɪˈdiː(ə)lnəs/, U.S. /aɪˈdi(ə)lnəs/ The state or quality of being ideal.
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1798 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. I. 163 In a theory, which bottoms upon the conception of duty, the apprehension on account of the void idealness of this conception ceases entirely.
1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 387/1 Ennoble the Actual into Idealness.
1891 Independent (N.Y.) 26 Nov. 6 The direct result of these associations in the case of Chaucer..is to increase the idealness of the poem.
1922 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 11 Nov. 14/1 No marriage is entirely serene, and those which are humanly precarious are happy in directly opposite ratio to the idealness (if one may say it that way) of the mating.
1969 F. Weinstein & G. M. Platt Wish to be Free ii. 71 The excessive ‘idealness’ evident in the works of many of the writers.
2002 Cultural Critique No. 50. 20 The concern to somehow capture real life (in both its realness and idealness).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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