About The Word Naturalism
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Naturalism
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What's The Definition Of Naturalism?
[n] the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
[n] an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description Synonyms | Synonyms for Naturalism: Realism Related Terms | Find terms related to Naturalism: absolute realism | animalism | artlessness | atomism | authenticity | behaviorism | bona fideness | commonsense realism | dialectical materialism | earthliness | empiricism | epiphenomenalism | genuineness | health | historical materialism | honesty | hylomorphism | hylotheism | hylozoism | inartificiality | legitimacy | lifelikeness | literalism | literality | literalness | Marxism | materialism | mechanism | natural realism | naturalness | nature | naturism | new realism | normalcy | normality | normalness | order | photographic realism | physicalism | physicism | positive philosophy | positivism | pragmaticism | pragmatism | propriety | realism | realness | regularity | representative realism | secularism | sincerity | substantialism | temporality | true-to-lifeness | truth to nature | unadulteration | unaffectation | unaffectedness | unartificialness | unassumingness | undisguise | unfictitiousness | unpretentiousness | unspeciousness | unspoiledness | unspuriousness | unsyntheticness | verisimilitude | wholesomeness | worldliness See Also | art movement | artistic movement | philosophical doctrine | philosophical theory Naturalism In Webster's Dictionary \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.]
1. A state of nature; conformity to nature.
2. (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural
agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the
Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of
philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind
force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed
laws, excluding origination or direction by one
intelligent will.
\Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. 1. The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. 2. Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. |
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