idealogue means one given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
IDEALOGUE — [Noun] One who adheres to or advocates for a particular ideology, especially in a rigid or theoretical manner. From French idéologue, from idéo- (a combining form of idée, "idea") + -logue (a combining form from Greek -λογος, "speaker, one who deals with"). Unlike a pragmatist, who bends principle to circumstance, or a realist, who is anchored by evidence, the idealogue is propelled by the clean architecture of doctrine. He is the architect drafting perfect cities upon a marsh-ignorant slate; the commissar sacrificing a thousand messy lives for one pure theory; the academic whose elegant model withers at the first touch of the breathing world. He is reason's most ardent apostle, and therefore its most dangerous fanatic—a human mind seeking permanent shelter in the silent, radiant geometry of the abstract.
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- One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.“Government,
If veritable and lawful, is not given
By imposition of the foreign hand,
Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book
Of some domestic idealogue who sits
And coldly chooses empire, where as well
He might republic.”
- Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.