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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•al•ist (rē′ə list),USA pronunciation n. - a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- Fine Art, Literaturean artist or a writer whose work is characterized by realism.
- Philosophyan adherent of realism.
adj. - of or pertaining to realism or to a person who embodies its principles or practices:the realist approach to social ills; realist paintings.
- 1595–1605; real1 + -ist; compare French réaliste
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ˈrealist /ˈrɪəlɪst/ n - a person who is aware of and accepts the physical universe, events, etc, as they are; pragmatist
- an artist or writer who seeks to represent the familiar or typical in real life rather than an idealized, formalized, or romantic interpretation
- a person who accepts realism
- (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of realism or realists in the arts, philosophy, etc: a realist school
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•al•ism /ˈriəˌlɪzəm/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- interest in or concern for things that are actual or real, as distinguished from things that are abstract, that cannot be easily defined, that are thought about but not acted upon, etc.
- Fine Art[usually: Realism] a style of painting, sculpture, or literature in which figures and scenes of familiar parts of life are depicted or represented as they are or might be experienced in everyday life.
re•al•ist, n. [countable] See -real-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•al•ism (rē′ə liz′əm),USA pronunciation n. - interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
- Fine Art
- treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience. Cf. idealism (def. 4), naturalism (def. 2).
- (usually cap.) a style of painting and sculpture developed about the mid-19th century in which figures and scenes are depicted as they are experienced or might be experienced in everyday life.
- Literature
- a manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes.
- a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is. Cf. naturalism (def. 1b).
- Philosophy
- the doctrine that universals have a real objective existence. Cf. conceptualism, nominalism.
- the doctrine that objects of sense perception have an existence independent of the act of perception. Cf. idealism (def. 5a).
- 1810–20; real1 + -ism; compare French réalisme
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