- (n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
- (n.) One who believes in realism; especially, one who maintains that generals or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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