'Naturalism' definitions:
Definition of 'naturalism'
From: WordNet
noun
(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
noun
An artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: naturalism, realism]
Definition of 'Naturalism'
From: GCIDE
- Naturalism \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.]
- 1. A state of nature; conformity to nature. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. Specifically: The principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'naturalism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute realism,
- animalism,
- artlessness,
- atomism,
- authenticity,
- behaviorism,
- bona fideness,
- commonsense realism,
- dialectical materialism,
- earthliness,
- empiricism,
- epiphenomenalism,
- genuineness,
- health,
- historical materialism,
- honesty,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- inartificiality,
- legitimacy,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- Marxism,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- natural realism,
- naturalness,
- nature,
- naturism,
- new realism,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- order,
- photographic realism,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- propriety,
- realism,
- realness,
- regularity,
- representative realism,
- secularism,
- sincerity,
- substantialism,
- temporality,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectation,
- unaffectedness,
- unartificialness,
- unassumingness,
- undisguise,
- unfictitiousness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unspeciousness,
- unspoiledness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- verisimilitude,
- wholesomeness,
- worldliness
Words containing 'Naturalism'
- Natural,
- Naturality,
- Naturalization,
- Naturalize,
- Naturalized,
- Naturalizing,
- Naturally,
- Naturalness,
- Nature,
- Natured,
- Naturism,
- Naturity,
- Naturize,
- by nature,
- Debt of nature,
- Good nature,
- Ill nature,
- In a state of nature,
- Law of nature,
- Natural Bridge,
- Natural Harmony,
- Natural day,
- Natural draught,
- Natural father,
- Natural fats,
- Natural gas,
- Natural history,
- Natural law,
- Natural logarithm,
- Natural magic,
- Natural modulation,
- Natural order,
- Natural person,
- Natural philosophy,
- Natural product,
- Natural religion,
- Natural scale,
- Natural science,
- Natural selection,
- Natural sines,
- Natural steel,
- Natural system,
- Natural tangent,
- Natural theology,
- Natural vowel,
- Nature printing,
- Nature worship,
- animal nature,
- evil nature,
- human nature,
- inner nature,
- natural ability,
- natural action,
- natural childbirth,
- natural covering,
- natural depression,
- natural elevation,
- natural enclosure,
- natural endowment,
- natural event,
- natural family,
- natural fiber,
- natural fibre,
- natural glass,
- natural immunity,
- natural indigo,
- natural language,
- natural magnet,
- natural number,
- natural object,
- natural phenomenon,
- natural process,
- natural resin,
- natural resource,
- natural resources,
- natural right,
- natural rubber,
- natural scientist,
- natural shape,
- natural spring,
- natural state,
- natural virtue,
- natural world,
- naturally occurring,
- nature study,
- second nature,
- state of nature,
- Fair-natured,
- Good-nature,
- Good-natured,
- Good-naturedly,
- Ill-natured,
- Ill-naturedly,
- Natural Bridge, AL,
- Natural Bridge, NY,
- Natural product chemistry,
- To pay the debt of nature,
- Well-natured,
- ill-nature,
- immigration and naturalization service,
- natural family planning,
- natural language processing,
- natural language processor,
- natural yellow 8,
- natural language processing application,
- royal society of london for improving natural knowledge