naturalistic
adjEtymology From naturalist + -ic or natural + -istic.
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Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
- The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures.1989 April 22, Michael Bronski, “National Health?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
- Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12, →DOI:
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Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
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Medicine, Sciences Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
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Medicine, Sciences Specifically, Of drug use Recreational; nontherapeutic; self-administered.