ideology : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ideology	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ideology
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ideology n an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation Synonym(s): political orientation, ideology, political theory imaginary or visionary theorization
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ideology \I`deol"ogy\, n. [Ideo- + -logy: cf. F. id[82]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[82]ologie . . . has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. --Sir W. Hamilton.