Definition of realo in English:
realo
nounPlural realos reɪˈaləʊˈriːələʊ
informal A member of the pragmatic, as opposed to the radical, wing of the Green movement.
Often contrasted with fundie
Example sentencesExamples
- An inner party war between the two factions raged throughout the '80s until the realos finally prevailed.
- The realo could make a fairly strong case that green traditions of antistatism and anticonsumerism need to be fundamentally reconsidered.
- Inside the party, issue for issue, the realos and the fundis competed for the soul and stewardship of the Greens.
- By the 1980s, all these new movements had become divided internally between what the German Greens called the fundis and the realos.
- The realo possesses the considerable advantage of working within the constraints of contemporary social and cultural ‘givens.’
- In Germany the Greens are described as fundies or realos.
Origin
1980s: from German, from Realist 'realist'.