plural of realism

A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. / An artistic representation of reality as it is.

(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.

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

(euphemistic) Synonym of scientific racism

plural of magic realism

plural of magical 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).

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

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