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Definition of Realism

1. Noun. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth.

2. Noun. The state of being actual or real. "The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

3. Noun. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived.

4. Noun. An artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description.

5. Noun. (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names.

Definition of Realism

1. n. As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

Definition of Realism

1. Noun. A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary ¹

2. Noun. An artistic representation of reality as it is ¹

3. Noun. (science) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation ¹

4. Noun. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Realism

1. concern with fact or reality [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Realism

realignments realigns realine realis realis mood realisability realisable realisation realisations realise

realised realiser realisers realises realising realism (current term) realisms realist realistic realistically

realisticity realisticness realists realities reality reality-based reality TV reality adaptation reality awareness reality challenged

Literary usage of Realism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-Book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Within the limits of educational realism a somewhat wider compass of thought than ... On the one hand realism reached back to its earlier connection with ..."

2. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Within the limits of educational realism a somewhat wider compass of thought than ... On the one hand realism reached back to its earlier connection with ..."

3. The Bookman (1905)
"The word realism had been used several times with glib assurance, as a term standing for ... What, he queried, do we really mean when we speak of realism ? ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"And, its primordial intuition remaining unshaken, realism may, on reconsideration, be enabled to frame a new conception which harmonizes with all the facts. ..."

5. A Student's History of Education by Frank Pierrepont Graves (1915)
"This movement had two phases: (1) humanistic realism, which emphasized the ... The Rise and Nature of realism.—By the seventeenth century it is obvious that ..."

6. A Student's History of Education by Frank Pierrepont Graves (1915)
"This movement had two phases: (1) humanistic realism, which emphasized the ... The Rise and Nature of realism.—By the seventeenth century it is obvious that ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"If Anti-realism can show that, grant— ing an objective reality, the interpretation of Crude realism contains, insuperable difficulties, the process is quite ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"As realism aims more directly than idealism at correspondence with nature, ... As it is the object of realism to represent its subject matter in concrete, ..."

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