real-worlder

Noun

real-worlder (plural real-worlders)

1. Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.
   • Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.1965, The Politics of Military Policy: Seminars on the Politics of Policy-making, page 12
   • The scholars who found the postmodernists most outrageous were those who thought they actually were discussing the “real world.” […] What the real-worlders missed was that the extreme relativists were engaged in games of a yet another sort, language games, with double entendres and other clever...2002, Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Mansbach, “Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century”, in Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones...

   Synonyms:

   realist