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realism

  • noun
  • rēʹəlĭzm

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

Other meanings

  1. An artistic representation of reality as it is.

  2. The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.

Related words

  • Eurorealism
  • hyperrealism
  • infrarealism
  • Islamorealism
  • macrorealism
  • metarealism
  • nonrealism
  • overrealism
  • photorealism
  • pseudorealism
  • semirealism
  • superrealism

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This definition is adapted from “realism” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.