ideology
Syllables: i·de·ol·o·gyUK/ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/
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British/ˌɑj.dɪjˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪj/
ideology noun: doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
Noun
ideology (countable and uncountable, plural ideologies)
- Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.
- This article examines how these three scholars use the term "Occitan" and ideologies of Occitanism to characterize southern France, and how such ideologies reflect the intellectual traditions in which they write.1987 April, Vera Mark, “In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: George...
- The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
ideology meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ideology in Hindi
- doctrine, body of ideas
- विचारधारा vicārdhārā, नज़रिया nazariyā
ideology in Tamil
- கொள்கை, கருத்தியல்
ideology in Marathi
- ideology
- विचारधारा vicārdhārā
ideology in Urdu
- doctrine, body of ideas
- نَظَرِیَہ nazariya
More languagesFewer languages
- ideology in Bengali
- ভাবাদর্শ bhabadorśo
- ideology in Telugu
- భావజాలం, ఐడియాలజీ
- ideology in Malayalam
- പ്രത്യയശാസ്ത്രം pratyayaśāstraṁ
- ideology in Kannada
- ವಿಚಾರಪರಂಪರೆ, ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಚಿಂತನ ಮಾರ್ಗ, ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ, ತತ್ತ್ವವಾದ
- ideology in Punjabi
- ਵਿਚਾਰਧਾਰਾ vicārdhārā
- ideology in Gujarati
- વિચારધારા, વિચારધારાની
- ideology in Sinhala
- දෘෂ්ටිවාදය dr̥ṣṭiwādaya
- ideology in Nepali
- विचारधाराको
- ideology in Pashto
- ايديولوژي idioloži, ايډيالوجي iḍyāloji
- ideology in Tagalog
- sangkuruan, palakuruan
- ideology in Arabic
- أَيْدِيُولُوجِيَا ʔaydiyūlūjiyā
- ideology in Malay
- ideologi, adicita
- ideology in Indonesian
- ideologi
- ideology in Thai
- อุดมการณ์ ù-dom-má-gaan
- ideology in Vietnamese
- ý thức hệ, hệ tư tưởng, ý hệ
- ideology in Myanmar
- အယူဝါဒ a.yuwada.
Examples of ideology in a sentence
- We used the US constitution as the Platonic ideal of the ideology of our new state.
- Plummy students and the managerial elites might accrue ever-more virtue points through embracing the gender ideology.
- And IVF is like kind of the epitome of pro-life ideology.”
Forms of ideology
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Origin of ideology
Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie (equivalent to English ideo- + -logy). Cognate with, but not derived from, idea. 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.
Words formed from ideology
Words that rhyme with ideology
- homology
- topology
- technology
- mythology
- ontology
- theology
- typology
- aetiology
- anthology
- archaeology
- biology
- buttonology
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- etymology
- pathology
- phraseology
- psychology
- scatology
- tautology
- apology
- cosmology
- cryptology
- ecology
- neurology
- teleology
- aerology
- anthropology
- arcology
- Christology
- cohomology
- cosmetology
- cytology
- deontology
- epistemology
- eschatology
- ethology
- eucology
- geology
- gerontology
- graphology
- haplology
- heterology
- hydrology
- lepidopterology
- oology
- phonology
- radiology
- tricknology
- xenobiology
- zoology
- zymology
- acanthology
- acarology
- accidentology
- acology
- acridology
- actinology
- aeromycology
- alcohology
- appropriate technology
- archaeopalynology
Questions about ideology
- What does ideology mean?
- Ideology means doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- What is ideology in Hindi?
- Ideology in Hindi is विचारधारा (vicārdhārā), नज़रिया (nazariyā). See Ideology meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ideology?
- Ideology is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ideology?
- Ideology is pronounced /ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ideology?
- The plural of ideology is ideologies.
Words near ideology in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ideology (page history and authors); ideology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विचारधारा (Marathi) (page history and authors); ideology (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ideology (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ideology (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ideology (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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