concern for fact or reality and rejection of things regarded as impractical or visionary
representation of things in art and literature, in a way that is true to nature esp without idealization
in philosophy, the belief or doctrine that objects of sense perception, or classes and universals, exist independently of the mind
in philosophy, the belief that objects of sense perception have real existence independent of the mind
a doctrine that classes and universals exist independently of the mind
realist adj and noun