ideality

The quality or state of being ideal.

Noun

  1. The quality or state of being ideal.
    • It is commonly said that love never lasts. Now, that is not so much from change, or that it exhausts itself, as that it is mixed up with the paltry cares and daily interests of life; thus losing its ideality, which...
  2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
  3. The conceptive faculty.

Origin

From Medieval Latin ideālitās (“ideality”), from Late Latin ideālis (“ideal”). By surface analysis, ideal + -ity.

Forms

idealities

Related

idea ideal

Derived

nonideality