ideology
//ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː//
formalForms
- Plural
- ideologies
Definitions
1.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.
- 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.
- 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.
2.The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3733
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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.