Realism Synonyms and Antonyms

rēə-lĭzəm
The doctrine that material objects exist in themselves, apart from the mind's consciousness of them
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reality
  2. authenticity
  3. naturalness
  4. verisimilitude
  5. verism
  6. realness
Antonyms:
  1. unreality
The doctrine that universal or abstract terms are objectively actual
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. platonism
  2. naive realism
The picturing in art and literature of people and things as they really appear to be, without idealizing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. naturalism
  2. pragmatism

Words Related to Realism

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Realism Sentence Examples

  • His realism enables him to maintain the reality of Time, and so of the process of the world's redemption.

  • Hamilton (Discussions, p. 197) allows greater sagacity to Collier than to Berkeley, on the ground that he did not vainly attempt to enlist men's natural belief against the hypothetical realism of the philosophers.

  • Finally the theory defined is opposed to all forms of realism, whether in the older form which sought to reduce mind to a function of matter, or in any of the newer forms which seek for the ultimate essence of both mind and matter in some unknown force or energy which, while in itself it is neither, yet contains the potentiality of both.

  • In this list are included of course all shades of opinion, from extreme Nominalism to extreme Realism.

  • Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations";4 and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic."

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