different between idealistic vs ideology

English

Etymology

From idealist +? -ic or ideal +? -istic.

Adjective

idealistic (comparative more idealistic, superlative most idealistic)

1. Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.

Translations

References

• idealistic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• idealistic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• calidities, disilicate, italicised

Romanian

Etymology

idealist +? -ic

Adjective

idealistic m or n (feminine singular idealistic?, masculine plural idealistici, feminine and neuter plural idealistice)

1. idealistic

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- +? -logie (equivalent to English ideo- +? -logy). Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?.di.??l.?.d??i/, /?.di.??l.?.d??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?.di???l.?.d??i?/

Noun

ideology (countable and uncountable, plural ideologies)

1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
2. (uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

Usage notes

Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.

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References

Further reading

• "ideology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 153.
• ideology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ideology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• eidology