realism

From real +‎ -ism.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/ enPR: rēʹəlĭzm

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realism (countable and uncountable, plural realisms)

1. A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

   Hyponym: realpolitik

   Coordinate term: realisticness

2. An artistic representation of reality as it is.
3. (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
4. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.

• (antonym(s) of “doctrine concerning universals”): nominalism, antirealism

• legal realism
• moral realism

• idealism

• “realism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• realism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "realism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 257.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “realism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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From German Realismus.

realism (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. realism

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from French réalisme.

realism n (uncountable)

1. realism

reell +‎ -ism

realism c

1. realism

• realist
• realistisk

• realism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• realism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)

• lismare, smilare