idealism

IPA: aɪdˈiɫɪzʌm

The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
(philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

Examples of "idealism" in Sentences

This kind of idealism is very troubling it can to lead to uncivil rest.
That's what they call idealism; the word's vastly abused, but the thing is good.
She mis-guessed my age though admitted it was what she called my "idealism" that led to the error.
Or maybe idealism is correct, in which case – no matter, or at least it's radically different from the common perception.
In real life, however, Zuckerberg wants us to believe that his world-changing idealism is behind his work on the social network.
Corresponding to this individualistic tendency on the part of absolute idealism, there has been recently projected a _personal idealism_, or
Because the beauty elicits from us a certain idealism that improves the world in which we live and gives us as glimpse of something glorious and eternal.
After Jess drops out of school and finds herself living on a commune, the last of her youthful idealism is worn away by how easy it is for peace loving pacifists fall into patriarchal roles once some smell the scent of power.
We suspect that, for most people, the difference between self-congratulatory idealism and admirable idealism comes down to this: If the idealism is about something that is safely in the past or safely far away and has nothing to do with me, it's admirable, or at least harmless; if it does have something to do with me and my behavior, then it must be judgmental and self-congratulatory.