realism
/ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/
realism noun: a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
Noun
realism (countable and uncountable, plural realisms)
- A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
- An artistic representation of reality as it is.
- The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
- Lenin in fact confused epistemological realism with materialism (he repeats several times that materialism consists of recognizing 'objective material reality', 'independent of the subject'-but if so, nearly every Catholic philosopher is a materialist)1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
- A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
realism meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
realism in Tamil
- நனவியம், எதார்த்தவாதம், யதார்த்தவாதம், உண்மை வாதம், காட்சிப் பொருள் கொள்கை, உண்மைநிலை
realism in Bengali
- সেভাবে ফুটিয়ে তোলার প্রক্রিয়া, এই দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি যে, এই মতবাদ যে
realism in Malayalam
- യഥാതഥ്യം, റിയലിസം, തന്മയത്വം, യഥാതഥവർണനം, യാഥാർത്ഥ്യവാദം, പ്രായോഗിക വീക്ഷണവാദം
realism in Kannada
- ವಾಸ್ತವಿಕತೆ, ವಾಸ್ತವವಾದ, ಯಥಾರ್ಥತೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- realism in Tagalog
- pagkamakatunay
Examples of realism in a sentence
- You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.
- Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
- Tao Lin's novel Taipei best expresses the capitalist realism of Alt Lit.
Antonyms of realism
Forms of realism
| plural | realisms |
|---|
Origin of realism
From real + -ism.
Words formed from realism
- antirealism
- capitalist realism
- depressive realism
- dirty realism
- Eurorealism
- hallucinatory realism
- hyperrealism
- hysterical realism
- indirect realism
- infrarealism
- Islamorealism
- kitchen sink realism
- logical realism
- macrorealism
- magical realism
- magic realism
- mathematical realism
- metarealism
- moral realism
- naïve realism
- new realism
- nonrealism
- overrealism
- photo-realism
- photorealism
- pseudorealism
- quasi-realism
- race realism
- representative realism
- semirealism
- socialist realism
- social realism
- speculative realism
- superrealism
- tactical realism
- technorealism
- transcendental realism
- ultrarealism
- unrealism
Questions about realism
- What does realism mean?
- Realism means a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
- What is realism in Tamil?
- Realism in Tamil is நனவியம், எதார்த்தவாதம், யதார்த்தவாதம். See Realism meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is realism?
- Realism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce realism?
- Realism is pronounced /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/.
- What is the plural of realism?
- The plural of realism is realisms.
Words near realism in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: realism (page history and authors); realism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realism (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-realism.wav, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-realism.wav.
Cite this entry: “realism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/realism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.