idealism

• elevated ideals or conduct
• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
• impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
• The quality or state of being ideal
• Conception of the ideal
• 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

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