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- English Word Real Definition Relating to things, not to persons.
- English Word Real Definition Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
- English Word Real Definition Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
- English Word Real Definition A realist.
- English Word Realgar Definition Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
- English Word Realism Definition As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
- English Word Realism Definition As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
- English Word Realism Definition Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
- English Word Realist Definition 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.
- English Word Realist Definition An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
- English Word Realistic Definition Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
- English Word Realistically Definition In a realistic manner.
- English Word Realities Definition of Reality
- English Word Reality Definition The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
- English Word Reality Definition That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
- English Word Reality Definition Loyalty; devotion.
- English Word Reality Definition See 2d Realty, 2.
- English Word Realizable Definition Capable of being realized.
- English Word Realization Definition The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
- English Word Realize Definition To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.