Realism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REALISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the doctrine that objects of cognition are real
• the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly
• the view that the subject matter of politics is political power, not matters of principle
• the doctrine that the law is better understood by analysis of judges rather than the judgements given
• the quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life
• an artistic or literary movement or style characterized by the representation of people or things as they actually are.
• the doctrine that matter as the object of perception has real existence and is neither reducible to universal mind or spirit nor dependent on a perceiving agent.
• awareness or acceptance of things as they are
• 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).
• 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.
• Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
• the state of being actual or real
• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
• the doctrine that universals or abstract concepts have an objective or absolute existence. The theory that universals have their own reality is sometimes called Platonic realism because it was first outlined by Plato's doctrine of ‘forms’ or ideas.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• concern with fact or reality

Words related to REALISM

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Words that contain REALISM

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How to use REALISM in a sentence

• Else he is dealing with some man of straw of his own fancy, and will be found, as so often happens, assuming the truth of realism in every argument he brings forward.
• There is more of the realism of actual life in these novels than in her later ones, greater spontaneity and insight, a deeper sympathy and a more tender pathos.
• Their realism, and especially their method of comment and moral observation, she made her own.
• In reality, she did not contribute anything new to the realism of literary art.
• Only two pieces in the long series break this monotony by a touch of realism.
• So that alongside this invasion of realism it is not strange that there grew a revival in romance.
• With very swift and running feet you had passed from Romance to Realism.
• The one is a typical example of prosaic realism, the other of poetic reality.
• The argument here is that Bernard Shaw, in aiming at mere realism, makes a big mistake in reality.
• The theatre is a sort of thing which proudly sends a hansom-cab across the stage as Realism, while everybody outside is whistling for motor-cabs.
• I have already noticed this quality of almost brutal sincerity, of picturesque realism, in the works of Mlle.
• His keen observation of facts and passionate inquisition of human character drew him in the direction of what is termed realism.
• This combination of realism with romance is even more strikingly seen in an elder contemporary on whose work Browning bestowed an ardent admiration, the novelist Balzac.
• As the object pictured itself to his responsive imagination, he expressed it with what was to him a direct realism.
• It justified a new aim for the modern fiction of so-called unflinching realism.
• CHAPTER VIII DICKENS By the year 1850, in England, the so-called Novel of realism had conquered.
• Wildly improbable and wooden as his themes may now seem, their manner is realistic, realism of speech, in fact, being an element in his effectivism.
• They knew that he was beaten on the main point, and with their detestable feminine realism they exquisitely yielded on all the minor points.
• The prevalence of Realism, which marks mediaeval metaphysics down to the end of the thirteenth century, is another Platonic inheritance, and another impulse to unity.
• A great deal of realism, especially in France, attracts because it is novel, because M.
• But this severity of realism was not long maintained.
• Without my knowledge I turned to Realism, and when I began to think about my intended dramas I could not write on them because all my thoughts had taken another direction.
• You should remember that the novelist has no monopoly on realism.

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