Definitions for realism
ˈri əˌlɪz əmre·al·ism

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. realism, pragmatismnoun

   the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

2. reality, realness, realismnoun

   the state of being actual or real

   "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

3. realism, naive realismnoun

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

4. naturalism, realismnoun

   an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

5. Platonism, realismnoun

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

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1. Realismnoun

   the practise of assessing facts and the probabilities of the consequences of actions in an objective manner; avoidance of unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealism, self-deception, overoptimism, overimaginativeness, or visionariness.

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1. realismnoun

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

2. realismnoun

   An artistic representation of reality as it is

3. realismnoun

   The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation

4. realismnoun

   A doctrine that universals are realthey exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

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1. realism

   Realism is a philosophical, artistic, or literary approach that seeks to depict the world, people, or events as they truly are, without idealization or distortion. In philosophy, realism refers to the belief that reality exists independent of the human mind. It emphasizes the objective understanding of truth and existence. In art or literature, realism portrays characters, situations or settings in a way that mirrors real life, showing all its aspects including the mundane, the ugly and the ordinary.

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1. Realismnoun

   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)

2. Realismnoun

   as opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative

3. Realismnoun

   fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact

4. Etymology: [Cf. F. ralisme.]

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1. Realism

   as opposed to Nominalism, is the belief that general terms denote real things and are not mere names or answerable to the mere conception of them, and as opposed to idealism, is in philosophy the belief that we have an immediate cognition of things external to us, and that they are as they seem. In art and literature it is the tendency to conceive and represent things as they are, however unsightly and immoral they may be, without any respect to the beautiful, the true, or the good. In Ruskin's teaching mere realism is not art; according to him art is concerned with the rendering and portrayal of ideals.

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1. realism

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   • Philosophy
   • Practicality

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Anagrams for realism »

1. mailers

2. Raëlism

3. mislear

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of realism in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of realism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of realism in a Sentence

1. Kacen Callender:

   Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world…

2. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   There is no room for accommodating an apocalyptic cult like ISIL and the United States makes no apology for using our military as part of a broad coalition to go after it, realism dictates that compromise will be required to end the fighting and ultimately stamp out ISIL.

3. Walter LaFeber:

   [H]is foreign policy displayed a realism, a careful calculation of forces and… diplomatic finesse…. Stalin’s priority was not world revolution but, once again, Russian security and his own personal power. (Feber, 1993, p. 22 of America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-1992.)

4. Todd Stern:

   It is not going to be easy - I have no illusions about that - but we are not in the same place we were in eight or nine months before Copenhagen, there is a greater level of convergence on some very important issues, and there is a greater measure of realism with respect to what needs to happen to get a deal.

5. Dimitris Papadimoulis:

   If the lenders show the same realism that the Greek government and the Greek Prime Minister is showing, then we can have a deal in principle by Friday or before Friday.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=realism
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=realism
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Realism
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realism
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Realism
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=realism