<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.</li><li>the practice of idealizing</li><li>something idealized; an ideal representation</li><li>treatment of subject matter in a work of art in which a mental conception of beauty or form is stressed</li><li>any system or theory that maintains that the real is of the nature of thought or that the object of external perception consists of ideas</li><li>the tendency to represent things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are, with emphasis on values</li></ul>