Realism,

Definition of Realism:

1. Practical or pragmatic (as opposed to idealistic or visionary) orientation that relies on hard facts, and considers things as they are and not on what they might or should be. In politics, realism is called realpolitik.

2. Philosophical concept that non-concrete (abstract) entities such as numbers and mathematical objects have an existence independent of the human mind which conceives them. And that the knowledge classifications and other such taxonomic schemes are not arbitrary. Opposite of nominalism.

3. The attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

4. The quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life.

5. 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 Platos doctrine of “forms” or ideas.

Synonyms of Realism

Authenticity, Fidelity, Verisimilitude, Truthfulness, Faithfulness, Naturalism, Pragmatism, Practicality, Matter-of-factness, Common sense, Level-headedness, Clear-sightedness, Marxism, Absolute realism, Animalism, Artlessness, Atomism, Authenticity, Behaviorism, Bona fideness, Commonsense realism, Dialectical materialism, Down-to-earthness, Earthiness, Earthliness, Empiricism, Epiphenomenalism, Freedom from illusion, Genuineness, Hardheadedness, Health, Historical materialism, Honesty, Hylomorphism, Hylotheism, Hylozoism, Inartificiality, Lack of feelings, Legitimacy, Lifelikeness, Literalism, Literality, Literalness, Materialism, Matter-of-factness, Mechanism, Natural realism, Naturalism, Naturalness, Naturism, New realism, Normalcy, Normality, Normalness, Order, Photographic realism, Physicalism, Physicism, Positive philosophy, Positivism, Practical-mindedness, Practicality, Practicalness, Pragmaticism, Pragmatism, Propriety, Rationality, Realness, Reasonableness, Regularity, Representative realism, Saneness, Scientism, Secularism, Sensibleness, Sincerity, Sober-mindedness, Substantialism, Temporality, True-to-lifeness, Truth to nature, Unadulteration, Unaffectedness, Unfictitiousness, Unidealism, Unromanticalness, Unsentimentality, Unspeciousness, Unspuriousness, Unsyntheticness, Verisimilitude, Wholesomeness, Worldliness

How to use Realism in a sentence?

1. The summit was marked by a new mood of realism.
2. The earthy realism of Raimus characters.
3. Theres little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.