Ideal and Joy

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Ideal noun - Someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation.

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Joy and ideal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Joy" instead a noun "Ideal".

Nearby Words: idea, idealistic, ideally, idealize, idealise

Joy noun - A feeling or state of well-being and contentment.

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Ideal and joy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ideal" instead a noun "Joy".

Nearby Words: joyful, joyous, joyless, joyfully, joyously

particular	particular ideal	particular joy
certain	certain ideal	certain joy
true	true ideal	true joy
real	real ideal	real joy
Other adjectives: great, perverse, absolute, main, childish, innocent, beautiful, mysterious, greater, local.

Betty's "mistake" is usually that she dances for an impersonal ideal that others expect of her, while Alice dances for the sheer joy of the art.

Source: Technician vs. Performer
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy.

Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics
It describes the ideal of humanity united in joy and friendship, in the rather overheated fashion common to German romantic poetry.The most well-known musical adaptation was written by Ludwig van Beethoven, who used the text for the choral parts of his Ninth, or "Choral", Symphony.

Source: Music / Ode to Joy

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