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ideality|aɪdiːˈælɪtɪ|
[f. ideal + -ity; cf. F. idéalité (Littré).]
†1. The faculty of forming ‘ideas’ or archetypes: see idea n. 1, ideal a. 1. Obs.
1701Norris Ideal World i. Pref. 11 The Divine Ideality or that intelligible reason in the wisdom of God whereby things were made. 1704Ibid. ii. 282 When they [creatures]..had no existence but in the bosom of his own ideality.
2. The faculty or capacity of conceiving ideals; the imaginative faculty. (Introduced as a term of Phrenology.)
1828G. Combe Constit. Man. ii. §4 Ideality delights in perfection from the pure pleasure of contemplating it. 1838Sid. Smith Princ. Phrenol. vii. 167 Gall denominated this the Poetical faculty; and Spurzheim changed it to its present name Ideality. a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. xiii. (1870) 199 Moral imperativeness as based upon ideality or belief in higher fact. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. xiv. 359 Poetry or ideality, and untruth are..very different things.
3. The quality of being ideal.
a. The quality of expressing some idea.
1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 218 That crux of painful antiquaries, the origin and ideality of the far-famed Round Towers.
b. Ideal or imaginative character, esp. of a work of art: see ideal a. 2, 3 b.
1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iii. 86 The ideality and the poetry of their religion. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xii. 315 No invention of the most ludicrously-florid fancy can surpass in incongruous ideality the real, and substantial, and solidly-stupid old watchman.
c. Ideal or non-real nature; existence in idea only (opp. to reality): see ideal a. 4.
1877E. Caird Philos. Kant v. 88 The ideality of time and space.
4. with pl. Something ideal or imaginary; an idealized conception.
1844R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 39 [They] commenced their married life with amiable idealities about ‘love in a cottage’. 1858J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) III. ii. i. 221 Cicero..is not a mere ideality, he is a man and a brother. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (1886) 108 Those vague idealities which as..æons, took their place in later speculations.
b. = ideal B. 1.
1860T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 430 The intellectual qualities which constituted his ideality of the partner of his life. |