- of or characteristic of an idealist
- of, characterized by, or based on idealism
adjective
The definition of idealistic is someone who believes in some ideal of perfection.
An example of an idealistic person is someone who believes everyone is basically good and that all will always turn out right in the world.
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idealistic
adjective
Of, relating to, or having the nature of an idealist or idealism.
Related Forms:
- i′de·al·is′ti·cal·ly
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Sentence Examples
- Bruno was the precursor of the idealistic schools.
- Baillie, Origin and Significance of Hegel's Logic (1901), and Outline of the Idealistic Construction of Experience (1906); P. Barth, Die Geschichtsphilosophie Hegels (1890); J.
- It is an idealistic pantheism, which is a denial of all bodily mechanism, a reduction of everything bodily to phenomena, and an assertion that all real action is the activity of God.
- In Great Britain Mach's scepticism was welcomed by Karl Pearson to support an idealistic phenomenalism derived from Hume, and by Ward to support a noumenal idealism derived from Lotze.
- As a human person, I am body and soul; and the idealistic identification of the Ego with soul or mind, involving the corollary that my body belongs to the non-Ego and is no part of myself, is the reductio ad absurdum of idealism.
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WORDS NEAR idealistic IN THE DICTIONARY
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