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Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object he…

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

r semblance; a delineation or description. Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. Cudworth.

The quality or state of being ideal.

The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

The worship of idols. [Obs.]

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

Illiberality. [R.]

Illuminism. [R.]

The principles of the Illuminati.

Idealism. J. Grote.

ternal bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.

Immediateness.

power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire. Roman imperialism had divided the world. C. H. Pearson.

The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.