impracticality

noun

as in idealism

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Recent Examples of impracticality That points to the shortsightedness and impracticality of such a bargaining strategy. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 On the ceiling, a suede Scalamandré wallcovering delivers the sensory impact of leather—without the impracticality. — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026 Our current system denies new talent a livelihood, and the impracticality of such training, leads me to refrain from training them. — Ted Hope, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026 Bulky travel accessories are more likely to be left at home and gather dust in the closet due to their impracticality, but this hanging pouch will suffer no such fate. — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025 There was something freeing about opting into impracticality. — Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impracticality
  1. idealism
  2. optimism
  3. sincerity
  4. ingenuousness
  5. artlessness
  6. frankness
  7. naturalness
  8. guilelessness
Noun
  • Much of this was done with an American mixture of political self-interest and idealism.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Neptune sextiles Pluto early today, blending idealism with the power to reshape systems, habits, and shared goals.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026
Definition of idealism
Noun
  • After wrapping up its longest monthly losing streak on Wall Street in more than a decade, Google has started September by giving investors several reasons for optimism.
    — MacKenzie Sigalos,Drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Consumers are buying into a version of America that exists in the cultural imagination, whether that’s New York sophistication, California optimism, modern Western heritage or a broader aspirational lifestyle.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of optimism
Noun
  • The 25-year-old California singer-songwriter staked out his turf by taking pride in the ordinariness of his hit, from the mild-mannered vocals to the drama-free sincerity of his romantic imagery.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Most scenes were filmed with four or five takes as the actors experimented with different tones, feelings, and levels of sincerity to give Meriwether options in the editing room.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of sincerity
Noun
  • What was once a poignant effort to extend a state of ingenuousness is now tainted from the start.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of ingenuousness
Noun
  • But then, with seemingly on-the-fly artlessness, Laxe’s camera picks a few of the dancers out.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Definition of artlessness
Noun
  • Written with grimy, enlivening frankness — and an ability to dig into moral ambiguity — every character scrambles to get a leg up.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • King walked into the room with impersonal frankness and sat on the bed beside me.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of frankness
Noun
  • Acted with breathtaking ensemble naturalness, the play seems lived in rather than performed.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The ensemble of actors is convincing in its naturalness, with the characterizations remaining consistently precise and ambivalent.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of naturalness
Noun
  • Counterbalancing him is a young actor cast to play one of the show’s decoys (an excellent Skylar Gisondo), whose guilelessness only magnifies the film’s sense of Hansen as a man constructed entirely out of TV-friendly sheen.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Still, Dunk believes in himself, like any good hero, and people are drawn to his guilelessness.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of guilelessness

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