ideality

NOUN
  1. the quality of being ideal
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How To Use ideality In A Sentence

  • I lead a parasitic life upon you, for my highest flight of ambitious ideality is to become your conqueror, and go down into history as such, you and I rolled in one another's arms and silent (or rather loquacious still) in one death-grapple of an embrace. Familiar Letters of William James III
  • We see more clearly, therefore, with the aid of the doctrine of Energy, the import of the theory of transcendental æsthetic enunciated by Kant, who first pointed out that there are elements, and those the most necessary and universal, in the sense-presentation which bear the character of ideality as fully as the most subjective efforts of our ideative activity. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
  • The democracy we speak of spreading throughout the world is now in our own country only an ideality.
  • In these ways she becomes a kind of revivification of the spirit of Watteau, who has made perfect, for us all, what is perfect in the classicized ideality of experience. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • The narrator describes his successive days with Usher and his artmaking thus: ‘An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphurous luster over all’.
  • a liking to Yákoff's spiritual purity, his "ideality," -- possibly as a contrast to what he daily encountered and beheld; -- or, perhaps, in that same attraction toward "ideality" the young man's German blood revealed itself. A Reckless Character And Other Stories
  • In these ways she becomes a kind of revivification of the spirit of Watteau, who has made perfect, for us all, what is perfect in the classicized ideality of experience. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • If this power (which may be described, although not defined, as the capacity for resolving thought into its elements) be not, in fact, an essential portion of what late philosophers term ideality, then there are indeed many good reasons for supposing it a primitive faculty. Krimiblog.de
  • The obsession with becoming slimmer and slimmer is an obsession with becoming an image, and therefore transparent, an obsession with the disembodied ideality which is that of film stars. Vox Nova
  • Actually there are many theory and discussion about polity, humanity, ideality. in this novel.
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