Synonyms of the word

naturalism

• n. A state of nature; conformity to nature.
• n. The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in religious texts…
• n. (philosophy) Any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature as a blind force or forces…
• n. (philosophy) A doctrine which denies a strong separation between scientific and philosophic methodologies…
• n. (art) A movement in theatre, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality,…
• n. (nonstandard) naturism, nudism, social nudity.

realism

• n. A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
• n. An artistic representation of reality as it is.
• n. (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
• n. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that…