idealism

noun

/aɪˈdiːəlɪzəm/

[uncountable]

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the belief that a perfect life, situation, etc. can be achieved, even when this is not very likely
- He was full of youthful idealism.
- Idealism has no place in modern politics.
Topics Politicsc2
(philosophy) the belief that our ideas are the only things that are real and that we can know about compare materialism, realism

Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a philosophical term): from French idéalisme or German Idealismus, from late Latin idealis, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.

单词	idealism
释义	idealism noun /aɪˈdiːəlɪzəm/ /aɪˈdiːəlɪzəm/ [uncountable] jump to other results the belief that a perfect life, situation, etc. can be achieved, even when this is not very likely He was full of youthful idealism. Idealism has no place in modern politics. Topics Politicsc2 (philosophy) the belief that our ideas are the only things that are real and that we can know about compare materialism, realism Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a philosophical term): from French idéalisme or German Idealismus, from late Latin idealis, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.
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