What does naturalistic mean?

Definitions for naturalistic
ˌnætʃ ər əˈlɪs tɪk, ˌnætʃ rə-nat·u·ral·is·tic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. naturalistic, realisticadjective

    representing what is real; not abstract or ideal

    "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers"

Wiktionary

  1. naturalisticadjective

    having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic

  2. naturalisticadjective

    of, or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism

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  1. naturalistic

    Naturalistic refers to something that is related to or based on the natural world, resembling or imitating it. In art, literature, or philosophy, it can mean depicting or reflecting the reality, the human or social characteristic or condition, or the physical universe very accurately or in great detail, often including elements that are raw or unpleasant. In the science of natural phenomena, it depicts the belief that everything can be understood or explained by natural, physical, or material laws or forces, without resorting to supernatural or spiritual elements.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Naturalisticadjective

    belonging to the doctrines of naturalism

  2. Naturalisticadjective

    closely resembling nature; realistic

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of naturalistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of naturalistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of naturalistic in a Sentence

  1. Dave Nussbaum:

    I believe the paper will go on to be a landmark study of how social influence works in a naturalistic environment — to date a huge proportion of the research on these questions has been done in controlled laboratory settings, so the fact that the effects are this strong in a messy environment like a school (and that their sample size was over 24,000 students) is truly impressive.

  2. Charles McCarry:

    I was never in the bureaucracy, always in the theater, ive consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. Ive always said that Ive been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants. If pediatricians lived lives in which the manipulation of emotions were the tools of the trade, I probably would have written about them.

  3. Thomas Eissenberg:

    Both the laboratory and the naturalistic studies are consistent with one another, that water pipe tobacco smoke contains many toxicants, including nicotine that causes dependence, tobacco-specific nitrosamines that cause cancer, carbon monoxide that causes cardiovascular disease, and now benzene that causes leukemia, and water pipe tobacco smokers have these same toxicants in their bodies after they smoke tobacco in a water pipe.

  4. Nicolas Cage:

    I wanted to remind myself and also remind some folks perhaps in the audience or in the media that I could also apply myself to a much more quiet and measured performance style, i had gone on this tear, mission almost, to kind of break form with film performance and what was considered good performance by being naturalistic or photo-realistic or minimalistic.

  5. Shinji Nishimoto:

    We would like to understand how the brain works under naturalistic conditions, toward such a goal, we are planning to investigate how various forms of information — vision, semantics, languages, impressions, etcetera — are encoded in the brain by modeling the relationship between our experiences and brain activity. We also aim to investigate how multimodal information is related to achieve semantic activities in the brain. In particular, we will work on generating descriptions about what a person thinks.

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Translations for naturalistic

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  • wie im echten Leben, naturgetreu, wirklichkeitsnah, lebensecht, naturalistisch, realitätsnahGerman
  • naturalisteFrench
  • nádúraíochIrish
  • प्राकृतिकHindi
  • natimik, lifaveratik, lejenöfaveratikVolapük

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