ideality
111imagination — n. 1. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention, ideality, creative power, plastic power, fancy, fantasy. 2. Imaginative faculty, faculty of original conception, faculty of invention,… …
112actuality — *existence, being Analogous words: realization, actualization, materialization, externalization, incarnation (see corresponding verbs at REALIZE): attainment, achievement (see corresponding verbs at REACH) Antonyms: potentiality, possibility… …
113unutterable — unutterable, inexpressible, unspeakable, ineffable, indescribable, indefinable mean incapable of being told or described. All are often nothing more than intensives implying an extreme that goes beyond the power of words to express. In its more… …
114absoluteness — n 1. certainty, certitude, sureness, surety, assurance, assuredness, infallibility; positiveness, definiteness, actuality, substantiality, reality; accuracy, correctness, Tightness; exactness, exactitude, preciseness, precision; perfection,… …
115idealism — n 1. pursuit of noble ideals, perfectionism, ideality. 2. idealistic philosophy, transcendentalism, metaphysics; immateriality, spiritualism. 3. romanticism, utopianism, quixotism; castle building, dreaming; rose colored glasses …
116invention — n 1. origination, creation, composition, discovery; fabrication, concoction, construction, production; device, contrivance, instrument, mechanism, contraption, gadget, Inf. thingumagig, Inf. thingama bob; expedient, step, measure, maneuver,… …
117perfection — n 1. ideal, ideality, inimitability, inimitableness, incomparability, incomparableness; superiority, extraordinariness, preeminence, superemi nence, transcendence, sublimity, infinity; goodness, holiness, virtue. 2. completeness, entirety,… …
118imagination — [n] power to create in one’s mind acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery,… …
119vision — [n1] ability to perceive with eyes eyes*, eyesight, faculty, optics, perceiving, perception, range of view, seeing, sight, view; concept 629 Ant. blindness, sightlessness vision [n2] mental image, concept angle, aspect, astuteness, breadth of… …
120LIEBMANN, OTTO — (1840–1912), German philosopher. Liebmann, who was born in Loewenberg, Silesia, was appointed lecturer at Tuebingen in 1865, in 1872 professor at Strasbourg, and in 1882 professor at Jena. In 1870–71 he was in the Prussian army at the siege of… …
