Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.
- n. A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of ideas or of mind; a name applied by the later disciples of the French philosopher Condillac to the history and evolution of human ideas, considered as so many successive forms or modes of certain original or transformed sensations; that system of mental philosophy which derives knowledge exclusively from sensation.
Wiktionary
- n. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- n. The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of ideas.
- n. (Metaph.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.
- n. A set or system of theories and beliefs held by an individual or group, especially about sociopolitical goals and methods to attain them; in common usage,
ideology is such a set of beliefs so strongly held by their adherents as to cause them to ignore evidence against such beliefs, and thus fall into error -- in this sense it is viewed as a negative trait; contrasted topragmatism , and distinct from idealism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
- n. imaginary or visionary theorization
Etymologies
- From French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie. (Wiktionary)
- French idéologie : idéo-, ideo- + -logie, -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But then, consistency in ideology is not the strong suit of many.”
“I'm usually ok doing presentations and speeches. .i used to do public speaking at school. .won a couple of competitions here and there. .but with those i usually got to choose the subject matter. .with this it was set for me and i really don't have a clue about the term ideology at all.”
“The term ideology refers to this simultaneous war on reality and campaign for unreality.”
“The term ideology is often associated in people's minds with dogmatism and intolerance, but in fact, every society has needed a set of shared assumptions to provide it with a settled view about living together.”
“Your ideology is code for "let's make everyone equally poor and governed by the elite few".”
“Everybody has their own set of cherrypicked stats they can use to “prove” their ideology is the best one, but two months ago the country decided it wanted a Dem President and a Dem legislature.”
Matthew Yglesias » Obama to Krugman: Show Me The Workable Ideas!
“They wisecrack their way through their disasters and ill-considered romantic interludes, and even if the ideology is a bit dodgy, the comic turn makes it all very palatable and charming.”
“I read this blog everyday, I give you hits, I learn what your ideology is about, I internalize it, and I try to figure out why you all believe what you do.”
Gov. Granholm (D, MI) called to call out the National Guard. | RedState
“So, their ideology is and will never be in-line with what the President want to do.”
“If your ideology is the only thing driving you ... resign.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ideology’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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SEDE - principles and indicators
information security, balance of power, compliance with t..., air superiority, combat compability, compatibility, convergence, countermobility, discipline of eff..., discipline of staff, interoperability, leadership capabi... and 184 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
weightlift, orbitale, figure skate, speed skate, synchronizer, equestrian sport, bobsleigh, starting block, diesis, ligne, piste, water ski and 521 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
aesthetic, alienation, art, behaviour, bourgeois, bureaucracy, capitalism, career, charity, city, civilization, class and 99 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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But technically it means...
Words with technical senses resembling but not wholly reflective of vernacular usage, often because of a need for greater precision in some discipline or other.
planet, twilight, substance, zombie, sublime, type, token, natural, life, epidemic, evolution, likelihood and 12 more...
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theory and history of art: terms and ...
phenomenological, nonphenomenological, kineticism, mechanizing, digitalizing, utations, trajectory, synthesized, spatio-temporal, proliferation, quantification, iterative and 118 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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ideo-
of or relating to an idea or form
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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enjoidooks's Words
rastafari, facetious, desultory, dubiously, ineluctable, incarnadine, diapason, alembic, empathy, feckless, transcendence, thus and 190 more...
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