Definition of: Hegelianism

(hā·gā′lē·ən·iz′əm, hə·jēl′yən-) noun
The philosophical system of Hegel. Its controlling assumption was the so-called Hegelian dialectic, or principle which enables reflective thinking to arrange all the categories, or necessary conceptions of reason, in an order of development that corresponds to the actual order, in development, of all reality. The system is customarily characterized as absolute idealism. Also He·gel·ism (hā′gəl·iz′əm).