Realism

Noun

 * 1) A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
 * 2) An artistic representation of reality as it is
 * 3)  The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
 * 4)  A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

Antonyms

 * nominalism

Adjectives for Realism
wounding; decadent; gripping; graphic; unflinching; pure; gross; unshrinking; unpity-ing; surprising; lifelike; nauseating; inartistic; crude; bare.

Verbs for Realism
advocate—; compromise—; conform to—; delve into—; dip into—; establish—; examine—; imbibe—; practise—; touch—; transcend—; composes—; —divests; —enthrones itself; —portrays.

Thesaurus
Marxism, absolute realism, animalism, artlessness, atomism, authenticity, behaviorism, bona fideness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, freedom from illusion, genuineness, hardheadedness, health, historical materialism, honesty, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, inartificiality, lack of feelings, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, materialism, matter-of-factness, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, naturalness, naturism, new realism, normalcy, normality, normalness, order, photographic realism, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, propriety, rationality, realness, reasonableness, regularity, representative realism, saneness, scientism, secularism, sensibleness, sincerity, sober-mindedness, substantialism, temporality, true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, unspeciousness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, verisimilitude, wholesomeness, worldliness

Translations

 * Bulgarian: реализъм
 * Catalan: realisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: realismen
 * Dutch: realisme
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ρεαλισμός
 * Hebrew: ריאליזם


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: realismo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 現実主義, 写実主義, リアリズム
 * Norwegian: realisme
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: реализм
 * Serbo-Croatian: realizam
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: gerçekçilik

Anagrams

 * mailers, Raëlism

Noun

 * 1) realism

Related terms

 * realist
 * realistisk