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ideality

/aɪdiˈælɪti/

ideality noun: the quality or state of being ideal.

Noun

ideality (countable and uncountable, plural idealities)

  1. (uncountable) 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 constitutes its great charm.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 32
  2. (uncountable) The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
  3. The conceptive faculty.

ideality meaning in Urdu

ideality in Urdu

معنویت, تصوریت

Forms of ideality

pluralidealities

Origin of ideality

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

Words formed from ideality

Questions about ideality

What does ideality mean?
Ideality means the quality or state of being ideal.
What is ideality in Urdu?
Ideality in Urdu is معنویت, تصوریت. See Ideality meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ideality?
Ideality is a noun.
How do you pronounce ideality?
Ideality is pronounced /aɪdiˈælɪti/.
What is the plural of ideality?
The plural of ideality is idealities.

Words near ideality in the dictionary

  1. idealistic
  2. idealistical
  3. idealistically
  4. idealists
  5. idealities
  6. ideality
  7. idealizable
  8. idealization
  9. idealizations
  10. idealize
  11. idealized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ideality (page history and authors); ideality (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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