ideology

Definitions

1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
   countable, uncountable
2. The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
   uncountable
3. A set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the members of a social group or that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
4. the body of doctrine, myth, symbol, etc., with reference to some political or cultural plan, as that of communism, along with the procedures for putting it into operation. — ideologist, idealogue, n. — ideologic, ideological, adj.
5. the body of doctrines, philosophical bases, symbols, etc., associated with a particular social or political movement, large group, or individual. — ideological, adj. — ideologist, n.
6. Any system of ideas and beliefs. Many writers, such as Marx, use the term to refer to a distorted system of beliefs and ideas.
7. ideología, formación de conceptos e ideas.
8. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests of a nation, political system, etc and underlies political action
9. (Philosophy) philosophy sociol the set of beliefs by which a group or society orders reality so as to render it intelligible
   philosophy
10. speculation that is imaginary or visionary
11. (Philosophy) the study of the nature and origin of ideas
12. the body of doctrine or thought that guides an individual, social movement, institution, or group.

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show⟳, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.”

“Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble⟳. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true.”

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