QUIXOTISM Synonyms

• courtesy towards women

• the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct

• absentminded dreaming while awake

• a relaxed comfortable feeling

• the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

• the trait of spending extravagantly

• the activity of excessive spending

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

• impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are

• elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued

• concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use

• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

• a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

• of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia

• of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia

• characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection

• an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer

• a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

• a person with unusual powers of foresight

• not practical or realizable; speculative

• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

• the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

• indulge in fantasies

• portray in the mind

• quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior

• (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry