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noun, feminine

idéologie

/i.de.ɔ.lɔ.ʒi/

noun, feminine/i.de.ɔ.lɔ.ʒi/plural: idéologies

ideology

Related: idéologique

From idéo- (“ideo-”) + -logie (“-logy”). Coined 1796 by 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.