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ideology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɑj.dɪjˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪj/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (General-American)
• /ɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (General-American)
• /ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /ˌɑɪ.diːˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒiː/ (Australia)

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. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
   • 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. 1987 April, Vera Mark, “In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 64–70:
   • 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. 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
   • 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. 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
   • A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.
2. (uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

Forms

Deriveds

ideologue · ideologic · ideologise · ideologize · gender ideology · ideologizer · ideologiser · ideologically · subideology · ideolog · ideologization · ideologist · ideological · ideologism · ideologisation · ideologeme · successor ideology

Translations (112)

cmn 思想意識 /思想意识 (doctrine, body of ideas) · it ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · nn ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · tr ideoloji (doctrine, body of ideas) · de Ideologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · ko 이념 (doctrine, body of ideas) · tg идеология (doctrine, body of ideas) · pt ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · bg идеоло́гия (doctrine, body of ideas) · sh ideològija (doctrine, body of ideas) · ast ideoloxía (doctrine, body of ideas) · af ideologie (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · fi maailmankatsomus (doctrine, body of ideas) · kmr îdeolojî (doctrine, body of ideas) · hi नज़रिया (doctrine, body of ideas) · lt ideologija (doctrine, body of ideas) · hu ideológia (doctrine, body of ideas) · vi hệ tư tưởng (doctrine, body of ideas) · fi ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · ko 이데올로기 (doctrine, body of ideas) · ms adicita (doctrine, body of ideas) · my အယူဝါဒ (doctrine, body of ideas) · sk ideológia (doctrine, body of ideas) · vi ý thức hệ (doctrine, body of ideas) · mn үзэл суртал (doctrine, body of ideas) · ar أَيْدِيُولُوجِيَا (doctrine, body of ideas) · la ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · ky идеология (doctrine, body of ideas) · sv ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · cmn 思想體系 /思想体系 (doctrine, body of ideas) · tk ideologiýa (doctrine, body of ideas) · rue ідеоло́ґія (doctrine, body of ideas) · ru идеоло́гия (doctrine, body of ideas) · az ideologiya (doctrine, body of ideas) · pl ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · ms ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · mn идеологи (doctrine, body of ideas) · cmn 意締牢結 /意缔牢结 (doctrine, body of ideas) · bn ভাবাদর্শ (doctrine, body of ideas) · mi kaupapa whakaaro (doctrine, body of ideas) · ja イデオロギー (doctrine, body of ideas) · cmn 意識形態 /意识形态 (doctrine, body of ideas) · br ideologiezh (doctrine, body of ideas) · is hugmyndafræði (doctrine, body of ideas) · lo ອຸດົມການ (doctrine, body of ideas) · el ιδεολογία (doctrine, body of ideas) · es ideología (doctrine, body of ideas) · fi aatemaailma (doctrine, body of ideas) · et ideoloogia (doctrine, body of ideas) · be ідэало́гія (doctrine, body of ideas) · ps ايډيالوجي (doctrine, body of ideas) · ga idé-eolaíocht (doctrine, body of ideas) · az görüş (doctrine, body of ideas) · af ideologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · tl palakuruan (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · tt идеология (doctrine, body of ideas) · ga idé-eolaíocht (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · az məfkurə (doctrine, body of ideas) · ca ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · tg мафкура (doctrine, body of ideas) · fa-ira ایدِئولوژی (doctrine, body of ideas) · fr idéologie (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · cmn 理念 (doctrine, body of ideas) · ps ايديولوژي (doctrine, body of ideas) · es ideología (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · da ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · gl ideoloxía (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · ja 理念 (doctrine, body of ideas) · vi ý hệ (doctrine, body of ideas) · ur نَظَرِیَہ (doctrine, body of ideas) · id ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · uz mafkura (doctrine, body of ideas) · km មនោគមវិជ្ជា (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · hy գաղափարախոսություն (doctrine, body of ideas) · eo idearo (doctrine, body of ideas) · mt ideologija (doctrine, body of ideas) · yi אידעאָלאָגיע (doctrine, body of ideas) · th อุดมการณ์ (doctrine, body of ideas) · lv ideoloģija (doctrine, body of ideas) · ka იდეოლოგია (doctrine, body of ideas) · ro ideologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · gl ideoloxía (doctrine, body of ideas) · be ідэалёгія (doctrine, body of ideas) · ko 리념 (doctrine, body of ideas) · nl ideologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · ro ideologie (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · ru мировоззре́ние (doctrine, body of ideas) · si දෘෂ්ටිවාදය (doctrine, body of ideas) · mk идеологија (doctrine, body of ideas) · sh идеоло̀гија (doctrine, body of ideas) · ru идеоло́гия (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · ja 観念形態 (doctrine, body of ideas) · sq ideologji (doctrine, body of ideas) · nb ideologi (doctrine, body of ideas) · he אִידֵאוֹלוֹגִיָה (doctrine, body of ideas) · ml പ്രത്യയശാസ്ത്രം (doctrine, body of ideas) · ckb بیرو باوەر (doctrine, body of ideas) · fi ideaoppi (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · tl sangkuruan (doctrine, body of ideas) · ko 관념학 (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · cs ideologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · pa ਵਿਚਾਰਧਾਰਾ (doctrine, body of ideas) · fr idéologie (doctrine, body of ideas) · uk ідеоло́гія (doctrine, body of ideas) · ia ideologia (doctrine, body of ideas) · ug ئىدېئولوگىيە (doctrine, body of ideas) · km មនោគមវិជ្ជា (doctrine, body of ideas) · kk идеология (doctrine, body of ideas) · sl ideologija (doctrine, body of ideas) · hi विचारधारा (doctrine, body of ideas) · cmn 觀念學 /观念学 (study of the origin and nature of ideas) · uz ideologiya (doctrine, body of ideas)

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