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noun (n)

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

  Synonym:
  pragmatism
  

  source: wordnet30
• the state of being actual or real(noun.state)

  Synonym:
  reality, realness
  Antonym:
  irreality, unreality
  

  source: wordnet30
• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  naive realism
  

  source: wordnet30
• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  naturalism
  

  source: wordnet30
• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  platonism
  

  source: wordnet30
• As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).(noun)

  source: webster1913