Words Like REALIST

We have put together a list of words that are similar to REALIST.

6 Alternative Words Similar to realist

1 Individual Noun      Synonym Words Like Individual
2 Mortal Noun      Synonym Words Like Mortal
3 Person Noun      Synonym Words Like Person
4 Somebody Noun      Synonym Words Like Somebody
5 Someone Noun      Synonym Words Like Someone
6 Soul Noun      Synonym Words Like Soul

10 definitions of realist

1 An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
2 One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.
3 An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
4 A logician who holds that the essences of natural classes have some mode of being in the real things: in this sense distinguished as a scholastic realist; opposed to nominalist.
5 A philosopher who believes in the real existence of the external world as independent of all thought about it, or, at least, of the thought of any individual or any number of individuals.
6 In literature and art, a believer in or a practiser of realism; one who represents persons or things as he conceives them to be in real life or in nature; an opponent of idealism or romanticism.
7 One who advocates technical as opposed to classical education; one who upholds the method of the real-schools.
8 Of or pertaining to realism; realistic; naturalistic.
9 a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
10 a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
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