Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 20 compound words that contain realism. The most common are listed below. Open realism in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- socialist realismA Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.
- magic realismA literary style or genre that combines naturalistic details and narrative with surreal or dreamlike elements.
- capitalist realismA short-lived German pop art movement of the 1960s.
- social realismAn art and film movement that critically portrays the everyday lives of the working class and the poor.
- mathematical realismA doctrine that mathematical entities such as numbers and triangles exist independently of the human mind.
- dirty realismA North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.
- hysterical realismA literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.
- anti-realismAlternative spelling of antirealism: Any position involving denial of the objective reality of certain entities, or denial that certain general statements are objectively either true or false.
- indirect realismSynonym of representationalism (“the belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world in the mind of the beholder”)
- logical realismSynonym of antipsychologism: The theory that logical truth does not depend upon the contents of human ideas, but exists independently.
- magical realismAlternative form of magic realism: A literary style or genre that combines naturalistic details and narrative with surreal or dreamlike elements.
- moral realismThe metaphysical belief that morality exists objectively, so that at least some actions, thoughts and behavior are morally good or morally bad.
- neo-realismAlternative form of neorealism: A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.
- new realismSynonym of nouveau réalisme: An art movement founded in Europe in 1960, characterized by a return to "reality" in opposition to abstract and figurative painting; the creation of collages and assemblages incorporating real-world objects …
- photo-realismAlternative form of photorealism: An extremely realistic style distinguished by paintings, drawings, etc. that are nearly indistinguishable from photographs, frequently produced by tracing and emulating an original photograph.
- quasi-realismThe noncognitivist metaethical view that although ethical sentences do not express propositions (and thus cannot be true or false), they nevertheless project emotional attitudes as though this could be the case.
- race realismSynonym of scientific racism: Racism presented as, or purported to be supported by, science.
- representative realismSynonym of representationism: The doctrine that thoughts are representations of real, external objects.
- tactical realismA style of gaming in first-person shooters (FPS), where realistic ("real-world") settings are simulated by the gaming engine (to the best of its ability) and players use authentic military tactics to accomplish goals in the game.
- speculative realismA movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).
- depressive realismThe controversial hypothesis that people suffering from depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality than those who do not have it.
- transcendental realismA school of philosophy that can be juxtaposed with transcendental idealism in that it views things in terms of how they actually are rather than how they appear to the actor.
- kitchen sink realismA British cultural movement that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, characterized by its depiction of the gritty, often bleak, realities of working-class life.
- hallucinatory realismA form of magic realism dealing with the content of dreams or fantasies.
- naïve realismThe theory that perception supplies direct awareness of the external world
Compound words 20
- biorealismThe inherent and inseparable relationship between human beings and nature, as applied to architectural design.
- photorealismAn extremely realistic style distinguished by paintings, drawings, etc. that are nearly indistinguishable from photographs, frequently produced by tracing and emulating an original photograph.
- neorealismA movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.
- transrealismA literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism.
- subrealismAn artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.
- antirealismAny position involving denial of the objective reality of certain entities, or denial that certain general statements are objectively either true or false.
- pseudorealismA dramatic or artistic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.
- superrealismArt intended to portray reality as accurately as possible.
- hyperrealismA style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
- infrarealismA literary movement of the 1970s, founded in Mexico by poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño.