A form of magic realism dealing with the content of dreams or fantasies.

A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.

(philosophy) A doctrine that mathematical entities such as numbers and triangles exist independently of the human mind.

(philosophy) The metaphysical belief that morality exists objectively, so that at least some actions, thoughts and behavior are morally good or morally bad.

Alternative form of magic realism

(art) A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.

Alternative spelling of antirealism

(literature) A literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

plural of transcendental realism

(philosophy) A movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).