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Definition: Meaning of, realism in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈrɪəlɪz(ə)m /

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  1. the ability to accept and deal with difficult situations in a practical way, based on what is possible rather than what you would like to happen
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  2. the quality of being or seeming real
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  3. also Realism the style of art and literature in which things, especially unpleasant things, are shown or described as they really are in life [↪  idealism, romanticism]
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realism used in phrases

  • Magic Realism (noun)
    1. a style of imaginative novel writing connected especially with 20th century writers from Latin America, such as Jorge Luis BORGES, Gabriel García MáRQUEZ, and Isabel Allende, in which impossible events are described as if they are real
  • magic realism (noun)
    1. a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
  • naive realism (noun)
    1. philosophy the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
  • romantic realism (noun)
    1. the first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England
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