realism
noun/ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/
Etymology From real + -ism.
1
A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
2
An artistic representation of reality as it is.
3
Sciences The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
4
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
- Antonyms
- nominalism, antirealism
- Derived terms
37 terms
antirealism, capitalist realism, depressive realism, dirty realism, Eurorealism, hallucinatory realism, hyperrealism, hysterical realism, infrarealism, Islamorealism, kitchen sink realism, logical realism, macrorealism, magical realism, magic realism, mathematical realism, metarealism, moral realism, naïve realism, new realism, nonrealism, overrealism, photorealism, photo-realism, pseudorealism, quasi-realism, race realism, semirealism, socialist realism, social realism, speculative realism, superrealism, tactical realism, technorealism, transcendental realism, ultrarealism, unrealism- Related terms
- idealism, universalism
- Hyponyms
- legal realism, moral realism