noun [U]
1 a way of seeing, accepting and dealing with situations as they really are without being influenced by your emotions or false hopes:
There was a new mood of realism among the leaders at the peace talks.
2 (of novels, paintings, films / movies, etc.) the quality of being very like real life:
the gritty realism of the new drama serial
3 (also Realism) a style in art or literature that shows things and people as they are in real life
compareROMANTICISM, IDEALISM
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for realism is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does realism appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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