Clues for the word "REALISM"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 75 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 19, 2026.
Definition of 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).
- 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.
- n. - Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Referring Clues
- Style of the Ashcan School
- Style of Hals and Velázquez
- Flaubert style
- Seeing things as they are
- Corot painting style
- Winslow Homer's painting style
- Trompe l'oeil genre
- Art and literature genre
- Common-sense belief
- Faithfulness to nature
- True-to-life genre
- True-to-life style
- True-to-lifestyle
- Authenticity
- It's true to life
- Norman Rockwell quality
- Acceptance of the way things are
- Seeing things through a factual lens
- Practical view
- Life as it is
- Zola's literary style
- Detail-oriented genre
- Henrik Ibsen was a playwright who focused on the ___ movement...
- Photo finish
- 19th-century French artistic movement - mailers (anag)
- Pragmatic approach to the facts
- Non-abstract artistic style
- Acceptance of things as they are
- Mailers (anag)
- Practicality
- Unromantic view of the world
- Artistic movement representing people and things as they actually are
- Common sense is entering the world
- Down-to-earth quality of Mailer's work
- Mailer's conversion to fidelity
- Practical approach exists inside domain
- Portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel
- Down-to-earth philosophy
- It could be Mailer's approach to literature
- Unvarnished outlook
- True-to-life art style
- Style of painting
- Genre that represents things as they are
- Magic ___ (genre with an oxymoronic name)
- Style for Edward Hopper and George Bellows
- Artistic style
- Truthful representation, in art
- Showing things as they are
Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 18, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 01, 2025
- Daily American - July 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 04, 2025
- Daily American - December 20, 2024
- Daily American - December 03, 2024
- Daily American - November 16, 2024
- Daily American - November 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 05, 2024
- Daily American - June 18, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 22, 2023
- Daily American - July 31, 2023
- Your Life Choices - June 25, 2023
- Daily American - December 20, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 14, 2022
- Daily American - December 03, 2022
- Daily American - November 16, 2022
- Daily American - November 15, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - August 30, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 27, 2022
- Daily American - June 18, 2022
- Universal - December 05, 2017
- Daily American - July 31, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 04, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 22, 2017
- And in 45 more crossword puzzles...