realism
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Late Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English realism From real + -ism.
- derived from -ism English realism From real + -ism
- derived from reelbor
- derived from *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder✻
- derived from *reis Late Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻
Definitions
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.
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A doctrine that universals are real
A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
The neighborhood
- antonymnominalismantonym(s) of “doctrine concerning universals”
- antonymantirealismantonym(s) of “doctrine concerning universals”
- neighboridealism
- neighboruniversalism
- neighborlegal realism
- neighbormoral realism
Derived
antirealism, capitalist realism, depressive realism, dirty realism, Eurorealism, hallucinatory realism, hyperrealism, hysterical realism, infrarealism, Islamorealism, kitchen sink realism, logical realism, macrorealism, magical realism, magic realism, mathematical realism, metarealism, moral realism, naïve realism, new realism, nonrealism, overrealism, photorealism, photo-realism, pseudorealism, quasi-realism, race realism, semirealism, socialist realism, social realism, speculative realism, superrealism, tactical realism, technorealism, transcendental realism, ultrarealism, unrealism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for realism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA