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Idealistic

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.

    "But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas wordnet

Etymology

From idealist + -ic or ideal + -istic.

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