Ideality

Definition of ideality:

part of speech: noun

Tendency and power to form ideals.

part of speech: noun

Ideal state: ability and disposition to form ideals of beauty and perfection.

Usage examples for ideality:

• In the passage quoted above all ideality etc. "The Ego and His Own", Max Stirner.

• The ideality in Hawthorne's face was so conspicuous that it is recognizable in every portrait of him. "The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne", Frank Preston Stearns.

• Without soul, without ideality without aspiration, save of the baser sort, he represents no good quality nor redeeming virtue but physical health- the promise, it may at least be hoped, of a posterity that in the future, perchance, may justify his existence. "The History of "Punch"", M. H. Spielmann.