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Realist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist.

2. A small Spanish coin of the value of forty maravedis; but its value is different in different provinces, being from five or six to ten cents, or six pence sterling. It is sometimes written rial.

Realist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who believes in realism; esp., 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.

2. An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

Realistic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Realistically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a realistic manner.