Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ideology"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ideology \I`de*ol"o*gy\, n. [Ideo- + -logy: cf. F.
id['e]ologie.]
1. The science of ideas. --Stewart.

2. (Metaph.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives
them exclusively from sensation.

Note: By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek,
id['e]ologie . . . has in France become the name
peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which
exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. --Sir
W. Hamilton.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ideology
n 1: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or
nation [syn: {political orientation}, {political theory}]
2: imaginary or visionary theorization

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