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Chris2010 Posted 13 years ago
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What is mean by "ideal of pain" in the sentence bellow. Is it grammatically correct to use the word "ideal"

Often, fear is associated with the ideal of pain, whether from the treatment itself, or the administration of medicine before treatment.
  

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Do you think it might be a typo for idea?
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chris2010 Often, fear is associated with the ideal of pain, whether from the treatment itself, or the administration of medicine before treatment.
The word "ideal" here is used to describe something existed only in your imagination. However, it is an adjective for this meaning, so it has to be: "the ideal pain".
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