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idealistic

 adjective
     
i‧deal‧is‧tic
believing that you should live according to high standards and principles, even if they cannot really be achieved, or showing this belief [↪ realistic]:
idealistic young doctors
the idealistic values of the 1960s
—idealistically adverb
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