idealism

noun
🔊/aɪˈdiːəlɪzəm/
🔊/aɪˈdiːəlɪzəm/
[uncountable]
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  1. the belief that a perfect life, situation, etc. can be achieved, even when this is not very likely理想主义
    • He was full of youthful idealism.他满脑子都是年轻人的理想主义。🔊🔊
    • Idealism has no place in modern politics.在当代政治生活中,理想主义根本行不通。
    Topics Politicsc2
  2. (philosophy哲学) the belief that our ideas are the only things that are real and that we can know about唯心主义;唯心论;观念论;理念论 compare materialism, realism
  3. Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a philosophical term): from French idéalisme or German Idealismus, from late Latin idealis, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.