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actualist|ˈæktjuːəlɪst| [f. actual a. 3.] One who aims at actuality or realism. Hence actuaˈlistic a.
a1866J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) xv. 375 To which the actualist ever answers, The moral world..is given by human constitution and circumstance. 1887Harper's Mag. Jan. 324/1 In his first essay in the field of fiction he turns out an actualist, whose first wish seems to be truth to his facts and the meaning of them. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Actualistic. 1921Hannay & Collingwood tr. Ruggiero's Mod. Philos. 201 Over against this actualistic concept of life,..we find maintained..an absolutely intellectualistic conception. 1934Essays & Stud. XIX. 145 An actualistic drawing-room play. |