idea | (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: thought |
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(noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: mind |
(noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, estimation |
(noun) a personal view | - |
(noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: melodic theme, musical theme, theme |
ideal | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: idealistic |
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(adjective) constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception | - |
(adjective) conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal | - |
(noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
idealise | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealize |
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(verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealize |
idealised | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealized |
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idealism | (noun) impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are | - |
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(noun) elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued | Synonyms: high-mindedness, noble-mindedness |
(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality | - |
idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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idealistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: ideal |
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(adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
ideality | (noun) the quality of being ideal | - |
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idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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(verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
idealized | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealised |
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ideally | (adverb) in an ideal manner | - |
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idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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ideate | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, imagine |
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ideation | (noun) the process of forming and relating ideas | - |
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ideational | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, notional |
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idempotent | (adjective) unchanged in value following multiplication by itself | - |
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identical | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: monovular |
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(adjective) coinciding exactly when superimposed | Synonyms: superposable |
(adjective) having properties with uniform values along all axes | - |
(adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: indistinguishable |
(adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: selfsame, very |
identically | (adverb) with complete identity; in an identical manner | - |
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identicalness | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identity, indistinguishability |
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identifiable | (adjective) capable of being identified | - |
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identifiably | (adverb) in an identifiable manner | - |
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identification | (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: designation |
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(noun) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) | - |
(noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: recognition |
(noun) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing | - |
(noun) the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established | - |
identified | (adjective) having the identity known or established | - |
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identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
(verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
(verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
(verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
(verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
identity | (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: individuality, personal identity |
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(noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability |
(noun) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | - |
(noun) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | Synonyms: identity element, identity operator |
ideogram | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideograph |
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ideograph | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideogram |
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ideographic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of ideograms | - |
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ideographically | (adverb) in an idiographic manner | - |
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ideography | (noun) the use of ideograms in writing | - |
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ideologic | (adjective) concerned with or suggestive of ideas | Synonyms: ideological |
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ideological | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation | - |
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(adjective) concerned with or suggestive of ideas | Synonyms: ideologic |
ideologically | (adverb) with respect to ideology | - |
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ideologist | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologue |
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ideologization | (noun) the process of giving an ideological character or interpretation to; especially of changing or interpreting in relation to a sociopolitical ideology often seen as biased or limited. | - |
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ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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ideology | (noun) an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation | Synonyms: political orientation, political theory |
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(noun) imaginary or visionary theorization | - |
ides | (noun) in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month | - |
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idesia | (noun) deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries | Synonyms: Idesia polycarpa |
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