ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ideality

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /aɪdiˈælɪti/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Ideality is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.

More Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
  2. The conceptive faculty.

Example Sentences

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.

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Related dictionary entries include idealness, nonideality, idoneity, idoneousness, quintessentiality, perfectness.

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