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idealism
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impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
related words >
Berkeleianism
,
Geistesgeschichte
,
Hegelian idea
,
Hegelianism
,
Kantian idea
,
Kantianism
,
Neoplatonism
,
Platonic form
,
Platonic idea
,
Platonism
,
absolute idealism
,
animatism
,
animism
,
archetype
,
aspiration
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
bigheartedness
,
bigness
,
chivalrousness
,
chivalry
,
complex idea
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
dream
,
dreamery
,
elevation
,
errantry
,
eternal object
,
eternal universal
,
exaltation
,
exemplar
,
flight of fancy
,
form
,
formal cause
,
generosity
,
generousness
,
great heart
,
greatheartedness
,
greatness
,
greatness of heart
,
heroism
,
high goal
,
high-mindedness
,
highest category
,
history of ideas
,
hylozoism
,
ideal
,
ideality
,
idealization
,
ideals
,
ideate
,
ideatum
,
idee-force
,
imaginative exercise
,
immaterialism
,
impracticality
,
innate idea
,
knight-errantry
,
knightliness
,
largeheartedness
,
liberality
,
liberalness
,
loftiness
,
magnanimity
,
magnanimousness
,
materialism
,
metaphysical idealism
,
model
,
monistic idealism
,
nobility
,
noble-mindedness
,
nobleness
,
noosphere
,
noumenon
,
openhandedness
,
panpsychism
,
pattern
,
percept
,
personalism
,
play of fancy
,
princeliness
,
prototype
,
psychism
,
quixotism
,
quixotry
,
reaching high
,
regulative first principle
,
romance
,
romanticism
,
simple idea
,
solipsism
,
spiritualism
,
subjectivism
,
sublimity
,
subsistent form
,
the Absolute
,
the Absolute Idea
,
the Self-determined
,
the realized ideal
,
transcendent idea
,
transcendent nonempirical concept
,
transcendent universal
,
transcendental
,
universal
,
universal concept
,
universal essence
,
unpracticalness
,
unrealism
,
unreality
,
upward looking
,
utopianism
,
visionariness
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
epilogue
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a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters"
a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
Z
,
act
,
addendum
,
affix
,
afterpiece
,
afterthought
,
afterword
,
allonge
,
apodosis
,
appendix
,
back matter
,
bit
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
chaser
,
chorus
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
commentary
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
consummation
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
crack of doom
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
doom
,
double take
,
dying words
,
effect
,
enclitic
,
end
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
eschatology
,
exode
,
exodus
,
expiration
,
expository scene
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
goal
,
hoke act
,
infix
,
interlineation
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
interpolation
,
introduction
,
izzard
,
last
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
marginalia
,
note
,
number
,
omega
,
parting shot
,
payoff
,
period
,
peroration
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
prefix
,
proclitic
,
prologue
,
quietus
,
refrain
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
rider
,
routine
,
scene
,
scholia
,
second thought
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
shtick
,
sketch
,
skit
,
song and dance
,
stand-up comedy act
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
striptease
,
subscript
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
tag
,
tail
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
turn
,
windup
archetype
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related words >
Geistesgeschichte
,
Hegelian idea
,
Kantian idea
,
Platonic form
,
Platonic idea
,
aesthetic form
,
antetype
,
antitype
,
archetypal pattern
,
art form
,
beau ideal
,
biotype
,
blind impulse
,
build
,
cast
,
classic
,
classic example
,
collective unconscious
,
complex idea
,
configuration
,
conformation
,
criterion
,
cut
,
engram
,
epitome
,
eternal object
,
eternal universal
,
example
,
exemplar
,
fashion
,
father image
,
figuration
,
figure
,
form
,
formal cause
,
format
,
formation
,
frame
,
fugleman
,
fugler
,
genotype
,
genre
,
highest category
,
history of ideas
,
id
,
ideal
,
idealism
,
ideate
,
ideatum
,
idee-force
,
image
,
imago
,
imitatee
,
impression
,
impulse
,
inborn proclivity
,
innate idea
,
inner form
,
innovation
,
instinct
,
layout
,
lead
,
libido
,
make
,
makeup
,
masterpiece
,
masterwork
,
matrix
,
memory
,
memory trace
,
mirror
,
modality
,
mode
,
model
,
mold
,
natural instinct
,
natural tendency
,
new departure
,
noosphere
,
noumenon
,
original
,
paradigm
,
paragon
,
pattern
,
pattern of perfection
,
percept
,
pilot model
,
precedent
,
primitive self
,
prototype
,
quintessence
,
regulative first principle
,
representative
,
rule
,
set
,
shape
,
significant form
,
simple idea
,
stamp
,
standard
,
structure
,
style
,
subconscious urge
,
subsistent form
,
the Absolute
,
the Absolute Idea
,
the Self-determined
,
the realized ideal
,
transcendent idea
,
transcendent nonempirical concept
,
transcendent universal
,
traumatic trace
,
turn
,
type
,
type species
,
type specimen
,
unconscious memory
,
universal
,
universal concept
,
universal essence
,
unlearned capacity
,
unreasoning impulse
,
urtext
,
very model
,
vital impulse
pastoral
collapse
a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
a letter from a pastor to the congregation
of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"
related words >
Alcaic
,
Anacreontic
,
Arcadian
,
Castalian
,
Edenic
,
English sonnet
,
Grand Guignol
,
Homeric
,
Horatian ode
,
Hudibrastic
,
Italian sonnet
,
Passion play
,
Petrarchan sonnet
,
Pierian
,
Pindaric
,
Pindaric ode
,
Sapphic ode
,
Shakespearean sonnet
,
Theocritean
,
Tom show
,
abbatial
,
abbatical
,
agrarian
,
agrestic
,
agricultural
,
airscape
,
alba
,
anacreontic
,
antimasque
,
arcadian
,
archiepiscopal
,
at peace
,
audience success
,
balada
,
ballad
,
ballade
,
ballet
,
bardic
,
bloodless
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
bucolic
,
burlesque show
,
calm
,
campestral
,
canonical
,
canso
,
capitular
,
capitulary
,
chanson
,
charade
,
churchly
,
cityscape
,
clerical
,
clerihew
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
cloudscape
,
comedy drama
,
concordant
,
countrified
,
country
,
critical success
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
didactic
,
diorama
,
dirge
,
dithyramb
,
dithyrambic
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
ecclesiastic
,
ecclesiastical
,
eclogic
,
eclogue
,
elegiac
,
elegy
,
epic
,
epic theater
,
epigram
,
episcopal
,
episcopalian
,
epithalamium
,
epode
,
epopee
,
epopoeia
,
epos
,
evangelistic
,
experimental theater
,
exterior
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
farm
,
farming
,
farmscape
,
flop
,
gasser
,
genuine
,
georgic
,
ghazel
,
giveaway
,
haiku
,
halcyon
,
happening
,
harmonious
,
heroic
,
hit
,
hit show
,
homespun
,
humble
,
idyll
,
idyllic
,
improvisational drama
,
inartificial
,
innocent
,
interior
,
jingle
,
landscape
,
legitimate drama
,
limerick
,
lowland
,
lyric
,
madrigal
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
ministerial
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
mock-heroic
,
monodrama
,
monody
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
narrative
,
narrative poem
,
native
,
natural
,
naturelike
,
nursery rhyme
,
ode
,
opera
,
orderly
,
outland
,
pacific
,
pageant
,
palinode
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral drama
,
pastoral elegy
,
pastorela
,
pastourelle
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
peacetime
,
piece
,
piping
,
placid
,
play
,
playlet
,
poem
,
poetic
,
poetico-mystical
,
poetico-mythological
,
poetico-philosophic
,
poetlike
,
prelatial
,
prelatic
,
priest-ridden
,
priestish
,
priestly
,
problem play
,
prothalamium
,
provincial
,
psychodrama
,
quiet
,
quiz show
,
rabbinic
,
radio drama
,
restful
,
review
,
revue
,
rhapsodic
,
rhyme
,
riverscape
,
rondeau
,
rondel
,
roundel
,
roundelay
,
runic
,
rural
,
rustic
,
sacerdotal
,
sapphic
,
satire
,
scape
,
scene
,
seapiece
,
seascape
,
sensational play
,
serene
,
serial
,
sestina
,
show
,
simple
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
skaldic
,
sketch
,
skit
,
skyscape
,
sloka
,
snowscape
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
soft
,
song
,
sonnet
,
sonnet sequence
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
tanka
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
tenso
,
tenzone
,
theater of cruelty
,
threnody
,
total theater
,
townscape
,
tranquil
,
triolet
,
troubadour poem
,
ultramontane
,
unadorned
,
unaffected
,
unartificial
,
unassuming
,
uncomplicated
,
undesigning
,
undisguising
,
undissembling
,
undissimulating
,
unembellished
,
unfeigning
,
unpretending
,
unpretentious
,
unspoiled
,
untroubled
,
unvarnished
,
upland
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
verse
,
verselet
,
versicle
,
view
,
villanelle
,
virelay
,
waterscape
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
pleasantry
collapse
an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries"
related words >
Atticism
,
affability
,
agile wit
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
amenity
,
amiability
,
amicability
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
badinage
,
banter
,
black humor
,
bliss
,
blissfulness
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliance
,
brilliant idea
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
chaff
,
cleverness
,
comedy
,
compatibility
,
complaisance
,
conceit
,
congeniality
,
cordiality
,
crack
,
dry wit
,
enjoyableness
,
epigram
,
esprit
,
exchange
,
facetiae
,
facetiousness
,
farce
,
felicitousness
,
flash of wit
,
flight of wit
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
funniness
,
geniality
,
gibe
,
give-and-take
,
good-natured banter
,
goodliness
,
goodness
,
graciousness
,
happy thought
,
harmless teasing
,
harmoniousness
,
humor
,
humorousness
,
irony
,
jape
,
jest
,
jive
,
jocoseness
,
jocularity
,
joke
,
joking
,
josh
,
joshing
,
keen-wittedness
,
keenness
,
kidding
,
kidding around
,
lampoon
,
mellifluousness
,
mellowness
,
mot
,
nasty crack
,
niceness
,
nimble wit
,
nimble-wittedness
,
parody
,
persiflage
,
play of wit
,
pleasance
,
pleasantness
,
pleasingness
,
pleasurability
,
pleasurableness
,
pleasure
,
pleasurefulness
,
pretty wit
,
pungency
,
quick wit
,
quick-wittedness
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
rapport
,
ready wit
,
repartee
,
retort
,
ridicule
,
riposte
,
sally
,
salt
,
saltiness
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
savor of wit
,
scintillation
,
sharpness
,
slapstick
,
slapstick humor
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
smartness
,
snappy comeback
,
sport
,
squib
,
stroke of wit
,
subtle wit
,
sweetness
,
travesty
,
turn of thought
,
twit
,
visual humor
,
welcomeness
,
wisecrack
,
wit
,
witticism
,
wittiness
interlude
collapse
a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
an intervening period or episode
perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"
related words >
abeyance
,
act
,
afterpiece
,
anacrusis
,
bass passage
,
bit
,
bourdon
,
break
,
breath
,
breather
,
breathing place
,
breathing space
,
breathing spell
,
breathing time
,
bridge
,
burden
,
cadence
,
caesura
,
cease-fire
,
chaser
,
chorus
,
cigarette break
,
cocktail hour
,
coda
,
coffee break
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
day off
,
development
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
division
,
downtime
,
drop
,
enforced respite
,
epilogue
,
episode
,
exode
,
exodus
,
exposition
,
expository scene
,
figure
,
finale
,
folderol
,
gap
,
half time
,
half-time intermission
,
halt
,
happy hour
,
harmonic close
,
hesitation
,
hiatus
,
hoke act
,
holiday
,
idyll
,
interim
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interregnum
,
interruption
,
interval
,
introduction
,
introductory phrase
,
lacuna
,
lapse
,
layoff
,
letup
,
lull
,
meantime
,
meanwhile
,
measure
,
movement
,
musical phrase
,
musical sentence
,
number
,
off-time
,
ornament
,
parenthesis
,
part
,
passage
,
pause
,
period
,
phrase
,
plateau
,
point of repose
,
prologue
,
quiet spell
,
recess
,
refrain
,
relief
,
remission
,
resolution
,
respite
,
response
,
rest
,
resting point
,
ritornello
,
routine
,
scene
,
section
,
shtick
,
sketch
,
skit
,
song and dance
,
spell
,
stand-down
,
stand-up comedy act
,
stanza
,
statement
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strain
,
striptease
,
surcease
,
suspension
,
tailpiece
,
tea break
,
time off
,
time out
,
truce
,
turn
,
tutti
,
tutti passage
,
vacation
,
variation
,
verse
,
wait
fanaticism
collapse
excessive intolerance of opposing views
related words >
agitation
,
authoritarianism
,
balkiness
,
bias
,
bibliolatry
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
bluster
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
bullheadedness
,
cacophony
,
chaos
,
charismatic gift
,
charismatic movement
,
charismatic renewal
,
closed mind
,
commotion
,
cramped ideas
,
dedication
,
determination
,
devotedness
,
devotion
,
disturbance
,
doggedness
,
dogmatism
,
ebullition
,
embroilment
,
enthusiasm
,
excessiveness
,
extravagance
,
extremeness
,
extremism
,
fanaticalness
,
ferment
,
fervor
,
fixed mind
,
flap
,
fomentation
,
foofaraw
,
franticness
,
frenzy
,
fume
,
furor
,
furore
,
fury
,
fuss
,
gift of tongues
,
glossolalia
,
hardheadedness
,
headstrongness
,
hideboundness
,
hubbub
,
hysteria
,
illiberality
,
infatuation
,
inflexible will
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
intolerance
,
little-mindedness
,
littleness
,
madness
,
mania
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
monomania
,
mulishness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
obduracy
,
obsessiveness
,
obstinacy
,
obstinateness
,
odium theologicum
,
opinionatedness
,
overambitiousness
,
overanxiety
,
overanxiousness
,
overdevoutness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overpiousness
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overrighteousness
,
overzealousness
,
pandemonium
,
parochialism
,
partiality
,
passion
,
pentecostalism
,
perfervidness
,
perseverance
,
pertinacity
,
pettiness
,
petty mind
,
pigheadedness
,
prejudice
,
provincialism
,
purblindness
,
rabidness
,
racket
,
rage
,
restiveness
,
revival
,
revivalism
,
row
,
ruckus
,
rumpus
,
sanctimony
,
self-will
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
single-mindedness
,
smallness
,
stiff neck
,
stiff-neckedness
,
storminess
,
straitlacedness
,
strongheadness
,
stubbornness
,
stuffiness
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
tempestuousness
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
tumult
,
tumultuousness
,
turbulence
,
turmoil
,
ultrazealousness
,
uncatholicity
,
uncooperativeness
,
unregenerateness
,
uproar
,
upset
,
wildness
,
willfulness
,
zeal
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
,
zealousness
travesty
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Atticism
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aggrandize
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aggrandizement
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agile wit
,
amplification
,
amplify
,
anamorphosis
,
ape
,
bad likeness
,
ballyhoo
,
belie
,
big talk
,
black humor
,
blowing up
,
botch
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
camouflage
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
color
,
comedy
,
copy
,
daub
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
disguise
,
distort
,
distortion
,
draw the longbow
,
dry wit
,
dummy
,
duplication
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
esprit
,
exaggerate
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
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facsimile
,
falsify
,
farce
,
garble
,
go to extremes
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
hit off on
,
huckstering
,
humor
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
hyperbolize
,
imitate
,
imitation
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
irony
,
knockoff
,
lampoon
,
lay it on
,
magnification
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
mimicry
,
miscolor
,
misquote
,
misreport
,
misrepresent
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
mock
,
mock-up
,
mockery
,
model
,
nimble wit
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overemphasis
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstatement
,
overstress
,
paraphrase
,
parody
,
pastiche
,
pervert
,
pile it on
,
pleasantry
,
pretty wit
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
quick wit
,
ready wit
,
replica
,
representation
,
reproduction
,
ridicule
,
salt
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
satirize
,
savor of wit
,
scratch
,
scribble
,
sensationalism
,
sham
,
slant
,
slapstick
,
slapstick humor
,
squib
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
stretching
,
subtle wit
,
superlative
,
take off
,
take off on
,
takeoff
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tall talk
,
tout
,
touting
,
twist
,
understate
,
version
,
visual humor
,
warp
,
wicked imitation
,
wit
,
wrench
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