ideology
y-dee-AH-luh-jee/aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/Sayy-dee-OL-uh-jeeUK/ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/AUS/ˌɑɪ.diːˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒiː/
Pluralideologies
- 1A set of beliefs and ideas that a person or group holds, often about politics or society.
Like a pair of glasses that colors how someone sees the world.
Her political ideology shaped every decision she made as mayor.
Two rival ideologies clashed during the long election campaign.
Similardoctrine, creed, philosophy, worldview, beliefs
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- 2The study of where ideas come from and what they are really like.
Like tracing a river back to find the spring where it starts.
He studied ideology to learn how thoughts first begin in the mind.
She took a class in ideology that traced ideas back to the senses.
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Origin
It comes from French idéologie, made from parts meaning "idea" and "study of." It was coined in 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy.