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Realism synonyms and antonyms

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naturalness
The state or quality of being natural.
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naturalism (related)
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verisimilitude (related)
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pragmatism (related)
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verism
Realism or naturalism in the arts
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nominalism (related)
The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names.
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idealism (related)
(Philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
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platonism
Alternative capitalization of Platonism
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naive realism
(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
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reality
The state of being actual or real.
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realness
The state of being real; reality.
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unreality (antonym)
The state or quality of being unreal
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realist (related)
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sensibility (related)
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theatricality (related)
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aesthetic (related)
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minimalism (related)
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surrealism (related)
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aesthetics (related)
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subtlety (related)
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authenticity
The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine.
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romanticism (related)
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nihilism (related)
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rationality (related)
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  • 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.

  • 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."

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

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