realism

From real +‎ -ism.

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

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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.

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

• legal realism
• moral realism

• “realism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• realism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• Raymond Williams (1983), “Realism”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 257.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “realism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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From German Realismus.

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

1. realism

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from French réalisme. By surface analysis, real +‎ -ism.

realism n (uncountable)

1. realism

reell +‎ -ism

realism c

1. realism
   • 1894, Gustaf Fröding, “Idealism och realism [Idealism and Realism]”, in Nya dikter [New Poems]:

     Nu är jag led vid tidens schism
     emellan jord och stjärnor.
     Vår idealism och realism
     de klyva [old present tense plural, usually klyver] våra hjärnor.
     
     Det ljugs, när porträtterat grus
     får namn av konst och fägring.
     En syn, som svävar skön och ljus
     i skyn, är sann som hägring.
     
     Men strunt är strunt och snus är snus,
     om ock i gyllne [gyllene] dosor,
     och rosor i ett sprucket krus
     är ändå alltid rosor.

     Now I am weary of the current [the time's] schism
     between earth and stars.
     Our idealism and realism
     they split our brains.
     
     People lie [it is lied], when portrayed dust [gravel, sometimes used figuratively like dust, especially in the past]
     gets called art and beauty ["gets name of" – archaic].
     A sight, that floats fair and bright
     in the sky, is true as a mirage.
     
     But nonsense is nonsense and snuff is snuff [fairly well-known line],
     if also in golden boxes [small boxes with a lid].
     And roses in a cracked jug
     are still always roses.
     

2. (philosophy) realism

• realist
• realistisk

• 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)

• lismare, smilare