Definition of realism Realism

/ɹiˈʌlɪzm/ - [reeulizm] - re•al•ism

We found 16 definitions of realism from 6 different sources.

What does realism mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: realisms
realism - the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
		pragmatism
		practicality concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
realism - (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
		naive realism
		philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
realism - the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"
		reality, realness
		irreality, unreality the quality possessed by something that is unreal
		existent, real having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
		unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
		actuality the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"
realism - (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
		Platonism
		philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
		philosophy any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
realism - an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
		naturalism
		art movement, artistic movement a group of artists who agree on general principles

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Wiktionary

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

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

realism (n.)
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).
realism (n.)
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.
realism (n.)
Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

realism
A visual art style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see.
realism
A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

Wikipedia

Realism is a word that can be used in many different ways. It is used mainly in the arts to describe the way that writers, musicians, painters etc thought in the late 19th century. These artists were trying to show the world as it really is, instead of trying to escape to a world of fantasy, which is what the Romantics had been doing. The Realists wanted to give an accurate description of Nature and of the way people lived in society.

Realism in literature.

Realism in literature was a movement which started in Germany. The poet and writer Heinrich Heine tried in his books to accept the world as it is instead of trying to escape from it. Realistic writers tried to find good things about society.

The interest in Realism led to a movement called Naturalism. This meant describing scenes in nature accurately. The novelist Emile Zola was a Naturalist.

Realism in Philosophy.

In philosophy Realism has a somewhat different meaning. Realist philosophy is a way of thinking about the world in which things have an existence even if no one is studying them (looking, hearing, smelling, touching them). This was different from older philosophers who said that things only exist because of people who are aware of them. For example: beauty only exists because someone sees something that they think is beautiful. A realist philosopher might say that beauty is there whether anyone sees it or not.

Music.

In music there was a movement called Verismo which was the Italian word for “reality”. Verismo w