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re⋅al⋅ist

  [ree-uh-list]
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–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
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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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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