ideals
What perfectionists chase
Ideals are standards of perfection or excellence that guide behavior and aspirations.
They represent what someone believes is best or most desirable: She never compromised her ideals.
Political movements rally around ideals like freedom or equality.
The gap between ideals and reality often prompts criticism or reform.
In mathematics, an ideal is a specific type of subset within a ring structure.
Foundational moral beliefs
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
- beliefsAccepted truths, personal
- tenetsFoundational beliefs of doctrine
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
credo · philosophy · axioms · precepts · convictions · code · maxims · standards
Moral goodness or merit
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
ethics · dignity · decency · compassion · fairness · justice · respect · responsibility
Desire for achievement
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
- goalsIntended end results
- visionAbility to see
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
desire · pursuit · striving · longing · yearning · achievement · success · excellence
Absence of any fault
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- elysiumIdeal realm of joy
heaven · harmony · bliss · golden age · promised land · millennium · romanticism · dreamworld
principles
Foundational moral beliefs
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
- beliefsAccepted truths, personal
- tenetsFoundational beliefs of doctrine
doctrine · credo · philosophy · axioms · precepts · convictions · code · maxims · standards · norms
virtue
Moral goodness or merit
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- conscienceInternal moral sense
honor · ethics · dignity · decency · compassion · fairness · justice · respect · responsibility · honesty
ambition
Desire for achievement
hope · desire · pursuit · striving · longing · yearning · achievement · success · excellence · motivation
perfection
Absence of any fault
elysium · heaven · harmony · bliss · golden age · promised land · millennium · romanticism · dreamworld · visionary
- PlatoPlato, academy, Academy, allegory, the Republic
- Abstractsabstractions, concepts, ideas, properties, qualities
- order theorylattice, upper bound, lower bound, comparable, incomparable
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- valuesvalue, honesty, worth, fairness, morals
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
idealsrealities
Things that exist
practicalities · actualities · facts · realpolitik · pragmatism
idealsvices
Immoral habits or practices
base instincts · depravity · corruption · baseness · cynicism
idealscompromises
Settlements through mutual concession
concessions · half-measures · expedients · accommodations · trade-offs
- romantic idealImagined perfect partner
- ideal stateBest possible arrangement
- ideal weightHealthiest mass for you
- noble idealsWorthy moral aspirations
- ideal bodyCulturally prized physical form
- democratic idealsBeliefs supporting popular rule
ideal, idealistic, idealism, idealize, idealist, idealized, idealizing, idealisation, idealisations