'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