English-Spanish translations for idealism

• idealismo
  Les deseo un poco de idealismo en su trabajo. I wish you some idealism in your work.
  El realismo no es menos virtuoso que el idealismo. Realism is no less virtuous than idealism.
  El socialismo, con todo su idealismo, no funciona. Socialism, for all its idealism, does not work.

Definition of idealism

• The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life
• An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures

Related words

• idealist
• idealistic
• idealise
• neoidealist