Vocabulary : Real to Realization
Real : A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system. ;; Royal; regal; kingly. ;; Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life. ;; True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. ;; Relating to things, not to persons. ;; Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary. ;; Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. ;; A realist.Realgar : Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
Realism : 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). ;; 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. ;; Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Realist : One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists. ;; An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
Realistic : Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
