Definitions for realisms

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realisms re·al·ism

Spelling: [ree-uh-liz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈri əˌlɪz əm/

Realisms is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in realisms (aeilmrss).

Definitions for realisms

noun

1. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
2. the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
3. Fine Arts. treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience. Compare idealism (def 4), naturalism (def 2). (usually initial capital letter) a style of painting and sculpture developed about the mid-19th century in which figures and scenes are depicted as they are experienced or might be experienced in everyday life.
4. Literature. a manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes. a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is. Compare naturalism (def 1b).
5. Philosophy. the doctrine that universals have a real objective existence. Compare conceptualism, nominalism. the doctrine that objects of sense perception have an existence independent of the act of perception. Compare idealism (def 5a).
6. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
7. the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
8. Fine Arts. treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience. Compare idealism (def 4), naturalism (def 2). (usually initial capital letter) a style of painting and sculpture developed about the mid-19th century in which figures and scenes are depicted as they are experienced or might be experienced in everyday life.
9. Literature. a manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes. a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is. Compare naturalism (def 1b).
10. Philosophy. the doctrine that universals have a real objective existence. Compare conceptualism, nominalism. the doctrine that objects of sense perception have an existence independent of the act of perception. Compare idealism (def 5a).

Origin of realisms

1810-20; real¹ + -ism; compare French réalisme

Examples for realisms

Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.

Of plot there is little, but as a terrible study in realism the book is a masterpiece.

To my thinking, at any rate, they make a gravid mistake who look for "realism" in these things.

Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?

There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism.

I loved his blend of Native American realism with just a touch of surrealism.

The end of realism, my dear Wyndham, is the thing of all others I most desire to see.

realism of the most ghastly truthfulness, as to a corpse in the grave, it certainly is.

At some of the meetings there was perhaps an excess of realism.

He somehow manages to balance faith, realism, optimism, the news of the day, and the fate of the human race.

If his love-story was not as affecting as Paul and Virginia, it had its realisms that compensated for some pathos.