realism

English

Etymology

From real +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/ enPR: rēʹəlĭzm

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Noun

realism (countable and uncountable, plural realisms)

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

   Hyponym: realpolitik

   Coordinate term: realisticness

2. An artistic representation of reality as it is.
3. (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
4. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “doctrine concerning universals”): nominalism, antirealism

Hyponyms

• legal realism
• moral realism

Derived terms

• antirealism
• capitalist realism
• depressive realism
• dirty realism
• hallucinatory realism
• hysterical realism
• magical realism
• magic realism
• mathematical realism
• moral realism
• naïve realism
• new realism
• photo-realism
• quasi-realism
• race realism
• socialist realism
• social realism
• speculative realism
• tactical realism
• transcendental realism

Translations

concern for fact or reality

• Armenian: իրատեսություն (hy) (iratesutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: реали́зъм (bg) m (realízǎm)
• Catalan: realisme
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現實主義 / 现实主义 (zh) (xiànshízhǔyì)

• Czech: realismus (cs) m
• Danish: realismen
• Dutch: realisme (nl)
• Esperanto: realismo (eo)
• Finnish: realismi (fi)
• French: réalisme (fr) m
• Galician: realismo (gl) m
• German: Realismus (de) m
• Greek: πραγματισμός (el) m (pragmatismós)
• Guaraní: añetegua reko
• Hebrew: ריאליזם (real'is)
• Hungarian: realizmus (hu)
• Ido: realismo (io)
• Irish: réadúlacht f
• Italian: realismo (it) m
• Japanese: 現実主義 (ja) (genjitsushugi), 写実主義 (ja) (shajitsushugi), リアリズム (ja) (riarizumu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: realisme m

  Nynorsk: realisme m

• Portuguese: realismo (pt) m
• Romanian: realism (ro)
• Russian: реали́зм (ru) m (realízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: realizam (sh) m
• Slovene: realizem m
• Spanish: realismo (es)
• Swedish: realism (sv)
• Tagalog: pagkamakatunay
• Turkish: gerçekçilik (tr)
• Yiddish: רעאַליזם m (realizm)

See also

• idealism

References

• “realism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• realism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "realism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 257.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “realism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Raelism, Mariels, almries, Marlise, mailers, Raëlism, remails

Estonian

Etymology

From German Realismus.

Noun

realism (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. realism

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French réalisme.

Noun

realism n (uncountable)

1. realism

Declension

Declension of realism

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	realism	realismul
genitive-dative	realism	realismului
vocative	realismule

Swedish

Etymology

reell +‎ -ism

Noun

realism c

1. realism

Declension

Declension of realism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	realism	realisms
	definite	realismen	realismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• diskbänksrealism
• fotorealism
• neorealism
• nyrealism
• skomakarrealism
• socialrealism
• vardagsrealism

Related terms

• realist
• realistisk

References

• realism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• realism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)

Anagrams

• lismare, smilare