Ideality
//aɪdiˈælɪti// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality or state of being ideal. uncountable
"It is commonly said that love never lasts. Now, that is not so much from change, or that it exhausts itself, as that it is mixed up with the paltry cares and daily interests of life; thus losing its ideality, which constitutes its great charm."
- 2 the quality of being ideal wordnet
- 3 The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. uncountable
- 4 The conceptive faculty. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"It is commonly said that love never lasts. Now, that is not so much from change, or that it exhausts itself, as that it is mixed up with the paltry cares and daily interests of life; thus losing its ideality, which constitutes its great charm."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ideālitās (“ideality”), from Late Latin ideālis (“ideal”). By surface analysis, ideal + -ity.
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