Examples of ideality in a Sentence
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Queerness is an ideality.
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Madison Moore, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
History is the concrete body of a development, with its moments of intensity, its lapses, its extended periods of feverish agitation, its fainting spells; and only a metaphysician would seek its soul in the distant ideality of the origin.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
Madison Moore, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
History is the concrete body of a development, with its moments of intensity, its lapses, its extended periods of feverish agitation, its fainting spells; and only a metaphysician would seek its soul in the distant ideality of the origin.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1701, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Ideality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideality. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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