realists
Fact-facing folks
Realists are people who accept things as they are rather than as they might wish them to be.
The term applies across contexts: in everyday life, a realist focuses on practical considerations over idealistic hopes; in philosophy, realists hold that external reality exists independent of perception; in art and literature, realists depict life without idealization.
She's a realist—she knew the project would take twice as long as promised.
Practical and without pretension
- sensibleShowing good judgment
- no-nonsenseSerious and efficient
- levelheadedCalm and judicious
- pragmaticFocused on workable solutions
matter-of-fact · practical · sober · hardheaded · clear-sighted · shrewd · judicious · balanced
Knowledge through observation
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- positivismPhilosophy demanding verifiable evidence
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
Plato · Kant · metaphysics · ontology · epistemology · correspondence · nominalism · physicalism
Based on observation, not theory
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- factsVerifiable pieces of truth
- truthAccordance with reality
- realityWhat actually exists
data · observation · verifiable · factual · scientific · analytical · logical · impartial
French realist painter
- BalzacFrench realist novelist
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- verisimilitudeAppearance of being factual
Flaubert · Zola · Tolstoy · depiction · representation · mimesis · ordinary · unidealized
down-to-earth
Practical and without pretension
- sensibleShowing good judgment
- no-nonsenseSerious and efficient
- levelheadedCalm and judicious
pragmatic · matter-of-fact · practical · sober · hardheaded · clear-sighted · shrewd · judicious · balanced · hands-on
empiricism
Knowledge through observation
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- positivismPhilosophy demanding verifiable evidence
Aristotle · Plato · Kant · metaphysics · ontology · epistemology · correspondence · nominalism · physicalism · universals
empirical
Based on observation, not theory
reality · data · observation · verifiable · factual · scientific · analytical · logical · impartial · detached
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French realist painter
- BalzacFrench realist novelist
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
Flaubert · Zola · Tolstoy · verisimilitude · depiction · representation · mimesis · ordinary · unidealized · documentary
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- ontologyontology, being, existence, becoming, universals
- Literary Groupswriting group, writers group, poetry circle, writing circle, writers workshop
- Epistemologistsempiricists, rationalists, positivists, constructivists, instrumentalists
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
realistsidealists
Pursuers of perfect visions
dreamers · utopians · visionaries · romantics · fantasists
realistsidealists
Pursuers of perfect visions
constructivists · relativists · solipsists · instrumentalists · skeptics
realistsromanticists
Believers in feeling's primacy
surrealists · abstractionists · expressionists · fantasists · symbolists
- realistic fictionInvented yet plausible storytelling
- magical realismFiction blending miraculous and mundane
- magic realismGenre mixing fantasy and ordinary
- realistic artArt resembling observable world
- gritty realismUnvarnished depiction of hardship
- photo realismArt replicating photographic detail
realistic, realism, unrealistic, realist, realistically, surrealism, surrealist, surrealistic, hyperrealism