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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun naturalism has 2 senses
- naturalism(n = noun.cognition) Array - (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations; Array is a kind of philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
- naturalism(n = noun.group) realism - an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description; Array is a kind of art movement, artistic movement
Derived form noun naturalist1
Derived form adjective naturalistic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
naturalism, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.].
- A state of nature; conformity to nature. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- The principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by
Zola andMaupassant , 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
naturalism, n.
1 the theory or practice in art and literature of representing nature, character, etc. realistically and in great detail.
2 a Philos. a theory of the world that excludes the supernatural or spiritual. b any moral or religious system based on this theory.
3 action based on natural instincts.
4 indifference to conventions.
1 the theory or practice in art and literature of representing nature, character, etc. realistically and in great detail.
2 a Philos. a theory of the world that excludes the supernatural or spiritual. b any moral or religious system based on this theory.
3 action based on natural instincts.
4 indifference to conventions.
Etymology
NATURAL, in Philos. after F naturalisme
THESAURUS
naturalism
Marxism, 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, 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
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