Synonyms for ivory tower
ivo·ry tow·er

Princeton's WordNet

1. ivory towernoun

   a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place

   "he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers"

Matched Categories

1. • Cognitive State

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1. Justice Breyer:

   You're at a distance. It is an ivory tower, there does tend to develop a kind of wall from people.

2. Holly Morgan:

   I felt a bit trapped between the ivory tower Oxford walls, i just had this general feeling that we were quite a young movement, I felt like I needed some real life experience.

3. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve:

   Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

4. Aimee Bahng:

   Even though we might be sort of cloistered away in the ivory tower or something, we felt very much moved by, incited by, inspired by a lot of the activists' work following the failure to indict Darren Wilson after the events in Ferguson, we wanted to not leave this behind after winter break.