realism

/ɹi.əlɪzm/

noun

  1. 1

    A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

  2. 2

    An artistic representation of reality as it is.

  3. 3

    The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.

  4. 4

    A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.

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