Question

ideology By the time she turned 19, she realized she no longer believed in her family's political ideology. ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi

Accepted Answer

The set of ideas and beliefs of a group or political party. The root ideo-, as you might guess, means “idea.” Ideas and theories about human behavior can always be carried too far, since such behavior is very hard to pin down. So ideological thinkers—people who come up with large theories about how the world works and try to explain everything (and maybe even predict the future) according to those theories—are almost always disappointed, sooner or later, to find that it doesn't really work out. A person intensely devoted to a set of political ideas or theories can be called an ideologue—a translation of the French idéologue, a word actually coined by Napoleon as a label for those political thinkers full of ideas he had no use for.

word	ideology
definition	The set of ideas and beliefs of a group or political party.
eg_sentence	By the time she turned 19, she realized she no longer believed in her family's political ideology.
explanation	The root ideo-, as you might guess, means “idea.” Ideas and theories about human behavior can always be carried too far, since such behavior is very hard to pin down. So ideological thinkers—people who come up with large theories about how the world works and try to explain everything (and maybe even predict the future) according to those theories—are almost always disappointed, sooner or later, to find that it doesn't really work out. A person intensely devoted to a set of political ideas or theories can be called an ideologue—a translation of the French idéologue, a word actually coined by Napoleon as a label for those political thinkers full of ideas he had no use for.
IPA	ˌaɪdiˈɑləʤi

Ideas Political Theories Set Behavior Ideology Beliefs Group