| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun idealist.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (idealist) | 1. Someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.[Wordnet]. 2. One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.[Websters]. 3. One who holds the doctrine of idealism.[Websters]. 4. Signifies an entity that idealises, based on the verb idealise.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IDEALISTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
Specialty Definition: IDEALISTS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: (1) Those who follow Plato, who taught that before creation there existed certain types or ideal models, of which ideas created objects are the visible images. Malebranche, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, etc., were of this school. 2: (2) Those who maintain that all phenomena are only subjective - that is, mental cognisances only within ourselves, and what we see and what we hear are only brain impressions. Of this school were Berkeley, Hume, Fichte, and many others. 3: Idealists Those who believe in idealism. They may be divided into two distinct sections -. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: IDEALISTS
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cosmothetic idealists | (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. --Sir W. Hamilton. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: idealist | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Idealist temperament | 7 | Idealist on Campus | 6 | |
| Idealist on Campus | 6 | Idealist temperament | 7 | |
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