ideal type
noun
a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
Origin of ideal type
First recorded in 1925–30
Words nearby ideal type
ideal element,
ideal gas,
ideal gas law,
ideal of pure reason,
ideal point,
ideal type,
idealism,
idealist,
idealistic,
ideality,
idealization