| Realism (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle). |
| Realism (n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative. |
| Realism (n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life |
| magic realism a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams |
| realism / pragmatism the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth |
| Platonism / realism (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names |
| realism / naive realism (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived |
| Hudson River school / romantic realism the first coherent school of American art, active from to , painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England |
| naturalism / realism an artistic movement in th century France, artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description |
| reality realness / realism the state of being actual or real, "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" |