| 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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