realism

/ษนi.ษ™lษชzm/

IPA: /R IY1 AH0 L IH0 Z M/

noun
  1. 1

    A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

  2. 2

    An artistic representation of reality as it is.

  3. 3

    The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.

  4. 4

    A doctrine that universals are realโ€”they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/realism