Dictionary
realism
Meaning
- A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
- An artistic representation of reality as it is.
- The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
- A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/
Etymology
From real + -ism.
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