ideology
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie (equivalent to English ideo- + -logy). Cognate with, but not derived from, idea. Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.
- borrowed from idéologie
Definitions
Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.
- This article examines how these three scholars use the term "Occitan" and ideologies of Occitanism to characterize southern France, and how such ideologies reflect the intellectual traditions in which they write.
The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at ideology. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at ideology. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at ideology
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA