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realist - 3 dictionary results

re⋅al⋅ist

[ree-uh-list]
–noun
1. a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
2. an artist or a writer whose work is characterized by realism.
3. Philosophy. an adherent of realism.
–adjective
4. of or pertaining to realism or to a person who embodies its principles or practices: the realist approach to social ills; realist paintings.

Origin:
1595–1605; real 1 + -ist; cf. F réaliste
re·al·ist   (rē'ə-lĭst)   
n.  
  1. One who is inclined to literal truth and pragmatism.
  2. A practitioner of artistic or philosophic realism.

Realist

Re"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]aliste.]

1. (Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
Language Translation for : realist
Spanish: realista,
German: der, *die Realist(in),
Japanese: 現実主義者
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