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Word Meanings - REALISTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

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  • RATHER
    Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
  • IMAGINATIONALISM
    Idealism. J. Grote.
  • IMAGINATION
    1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent,
  • IMAGINATIONAL
    Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • CHARACTERIZE
    1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
  • REALISM
    Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. (more info) An opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities,
  • CHARACTERIZATION
    The act or process of characterizing.
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • ETHEREALISM
    Ethereality.
  • CORPOREALISM
    Materialism. Cudworth.
  • MISIMAGINATION
    Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.

 

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