absolute idealism

noun

: the Hegelian philosophy of the absolute mind or any one of a group of metaphysical idealisms deriving primarily from Hegel which affirm that fundamental reality is an all-embracing spiritual unity see idealism compare hegelianism

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

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