hyperideal

Extremely idealized.

Adjective

  1. Extremely idealized.
    • We hope also that the cultured Englishman in the same way knows our Schiller otherwise than through Carlyle's hyperideal pen-and-ink sketch without shadow and without colour ; and which omits trace of the most striking...
    • But a conflictless world is only possible within a hyperideal vision, and this possibility is not the way of life found in ordinary experience. - 1989, Steven M. DeLue, Political Obligation in a Liberal State, →ISBN:
    • Because Henry, more and more threatened by every noncathected tongue, becomes more and more dependent on violence to perform his hyperideal identity. - 2013, Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, Premodern Sexualities,...
  2. Extremely close to the ideal.
    • Although the first samples produced in a small test plant had been evaluated as of ideal quality (hyperideal), production at an industrial scale generated manifold problems. - 2012, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, V. Hess, Ways...
    • Today, when the whole question of salvarsan therapy is still in dispute, when an absolutely conclusive opinion is not possible, when the treatment of syphilis based on the Wassermann reaction is deceptive, salvarsan...
    • An arsphenamine is regarded as "hyperideal" if of the five injected with the 1 in 300 dilution, four survive; of the five injected with the 1 in 275 dilution, three survive; and of the five injected with the 1 in 250...

Origin

From hyper- + ideal.

Forms

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Noun

  1. An ideal of a semihypergroup.
    • Moreover, there are only four hyperbolic honeycombs with material vertices and material cells (the cells are entirely inside of hyperbolic space), eleven with ideal vertices or cells (the cells touch the boundary of...
  2. A form of salvarsan that was introduced by Paul Ehrlich, but soon found to be prone to severe side effects.
    • “From the many' reports that have appeared on the subject it is evident that the '606, or 'Hyperideal,' or whatever other name it may bear by the time these words are published, does not keep well, the injection is...
    • In one case of iritis a severe bilateral neuritis developed about three weeks after the injection of hyperideal. - 1911, Annals of Ophthalmology - Volume 20, page 601:
    • The reason why the hyperideal is not sold while salvarsan is, as far as we know, has not been made public. - 1911, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and...
  3. An extreme ideal.
    • In this scene, the ten incarcerated children perform the hyperideal of US liberty from within a concentration camp established by the US government for its own citizens. - 2013, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, A Race So...

Forms

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