realism
English
/ɹi.əlɪzm/
noun
Definitions
- A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
- An artistic representation of reality as it is.
- (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
- (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
Etymology
Suffix from English real.
Origin
English
real
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Islamorealism English
- antireal English
- antirealism English
- cyberreal English
- derealize English
- hyperreal English
- hyperrealism English
- infrarealism English
- macrorealism English
- metarealism English
- neorealism English
- neosurrealism English
- nonreal English
- nonrealism English
- photo-realism English
- photoreal English
- photorealism English
- pseudorealism English
- real English
- real reality English
- realist English
- reality English
- realize English
- really English
- realness English
- realsome English
- realspace English
- realtime English
- realtone English
- superreal English
- superrealism English
- superrealist English
- surrealism English
- technorealism English
- unreal English
- unrealism English
- realis Latin
- realismo Spanish, Castilian
- realisme Norwegian Bokmål
- realisme Norwegian Nynorsk
- real Middle English
- reyalismo Cebuano
- 리얼 Korean
- real
- unreal
- really
- nonreal
- realize
- realist
- reality
- realtone
- realtime
- antireal
- realness
- realsome
- hyperreal
- photoreal
- realspace
- cyberreal
- unrealism
- superreal
- derealize
- surrealism
- nonrealism
- neorealism
- metarealism
- antirealism
- macrorealism
- superrealist
- hyperrealism
- superrealism
- infrarealism
- real reality
- photorealism
- technorealism
- pseudorealism
- Islamorealism
- neosurrealism
- photo-realism