different between ideology vs ideolog

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”.

Derived terms

Translations

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

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?.di.?l.??/, /??.di.?l.??/

Noun

ideolog (plural ideologs)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of ideologue

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??d?olok]

Noun

ideolog m (feminine ideoložka)

1. ideologue

Related terms

• See idea

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.d???.l?k/

Noun

ideolog m pers

1. ideologue

Declension

Further reading

• ideolog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Related terms

• (noun) ideologia
• (adjective) ideologiczny
• (adverb) ideologicznie

Romanian

Etymology

From French idéologue

Noun

ideolog m (plural ideologi)

1. ideologue

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ideològija.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ide?lo?/
• Hyphenation: i?de?o?log

Noun

ideòlog m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. ideologue

Declension

References

• “ideolog” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal