awareness or acceptance of the physical universe, events, etc, as they are, as opposed to the abstract or ideal

awareness or acceptance of the facts and necessities of life; a practical rather than a moral or dogmatic view of things

a style of painting and sculpture that seeks to represent the familiar or typical in real life, rather than an idealized, formalized, or romantic interpretation of it

any similar school or style in other arts, esp literature

the thesis that general terms such as common nouns refer to entities that have a real existence separate from the individuals which fall under them

the theory that physical objects continue to exist whether they are perceived or not

the theory that the sense of a statement is given by a specification of its truth conditions, or that there is a reality independent of the speaker's conception of it that determines the truth or falsehood of every statement