3K+ Words That Rhyme With IDEALISM

• a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams

• a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth

• exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

• 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion

• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

• the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money

• genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

• the quality of being current or of the present

• practices typical of contemporary life or thought

• a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior

• the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle

• an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good

• discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex

• habitual absence from work

• belief in a single God

• a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha

• the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth

• the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

• the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related

• fighting with the fists

• habitual relapse into crime

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

• food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly

• the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind

• an economic system based on private ownership of capital

• an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

• the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

• a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

• an insertion into a calendar

• occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)

• any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies

• the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

• the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms

• newspapers and magazines collectively

• the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media

• sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)

• the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

• the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life

• a system of symbols and symbolic representations

• the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

• an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images

• the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

• the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• a written evaluation of a work of literature

• the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction

• the technical aspects of doing something

• a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

• device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function

• an obvious truth

• belief in multiple Gods

• the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity

• (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

• (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)

• belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

• (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure

• the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element

• the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

• causing irritation or annoyance

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• a question raised for consideration or solution

• a source of difficulty

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)

• the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well

• a general disposition to expect the best in all things

• (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions

• fanatical patriotism