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realistic, a.|riːəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
1. a. Characterized by artistic or literary realism; representing things as they really are.
1829H. C. Robinson Diary 13 Aug. (1967) 102 [Goethe] repeated the remark which is one of his fixed ideas that it is by..facts that even a poetical view of nature is to be..authenticated... It is this which had made Goethe a realistic poet, as opposed to the idealism of such poetry as Wordsworth's. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Literature Wks. (Bohn) II. 104 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. ii. 63 Crabbe, like all realistic writers, must be studied at full length. Ibid. vi. 193 His scenery is as realistic as a photograph. 1887Spectator 26 Mar. 421/2 A woman in a realistic novel murders her child. 1943Ulster: Brit. Bridgehead (H.M.S.O.) 6 (caption) This realistic picture shows British troops in training in Northern Ireland. 1971Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 67/3 High fidelity stereo at its most successful is wide-ranging and realistic, analytical and rich in detail.
b. That conceives or imagines (a thing) as real.
1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 171 That realistic mode of conception in which alone a true atoning doctrine can rest in peace.
2. Concerned with, or characterized by, a practical view of life.
1862‘Shirley’ [J. Skelton] Nugæ Crit. x. 436 Carlyle's..speculative genius (for his genius is speculative, however realistic it may appear in certain aspects). 1869Seeley Ess. & Lect. iii. 87 Could not be reconciled to life by any plain view of things, by any realistic calculations. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 1/5 Mr. Eden, although doubting his wisdom, wished Chamberlain success in his ‘realistic’ search for lasting peace. 1962Listener 12 Apr. 626/2 Neither a minimum property qualification nor even a simple educational test..would be realistic or just in the present situation of South Africa. 1963Observer 3 Nov. 33/3 ‘Realistic’ can vary from its theatre meaning of ‘with damp washing’ to its place at the top of the conjugation ‘I am realistic, you have compromised, he has sold out’. 1973Howard Jrnl. XIII. 321 Realistic payment of prisoners is a novel idea to students of the British penal system.
3. Of or pertaining to realists in philosophy; of the nature of philosophical realism.
1843J. S. Mill Logic I. i. viii. 197 The philosophers who overthrew Realism..retained long afterwards, in their own philosophy, numerous propositions which could only have a rational meaning as part of a Realistic system. 1874J. Fiske Cosmic Philos. I. i. v. 122 The realistic tendency—the disposition to mistake words for things—is a vice inherent in all ordinary thinking. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 362 The Realistic view inclines to treat general principles of this kind..as designations of mere matters of fact, which might have occurred differently [etc.].
Hence reaˈlistically adv., in a realistic manner, with realism. Also reaˈlisticize v., trans. to make realistic.
1868H. C. Merivale in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 476 Let us look a little more closely and ‘realistically’, as the phrase now runs, at the features of New World landscape. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. vii. 233 [He] painted the truth as realistically as Crabbe. 1900H. D. Traill in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 200 (heading) Romance Realisticized. |