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noun (n)

• (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value(noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  realism
  

  source: wordnet30
• The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.(noun)

  source: webster1913