New Realism
- noun
- /nuː ˈrɪəlɪzəm/
- Formal
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Nuevo Realismo
- Philosophers associated with the New Realism argue that we can understand the world through direct observation.
- the age of New Realism
Examples
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"Nor did the latest new realism look realistic on election day.
Academic text (1997) -
Age of New Realism.
Academic text (2013) -
The age of new realism revolutionized children's books in the 1960s.
Academic text (2013) -
Accepting the nomination, Mondale endorsed a "new realism" that encompassed a "sober view" of the Soviets, a "growing private economy," and a government "as well-managed as it is well-meaning."
Academic text (1997) -
Not surprisingly, he saw himself as the apostle of the movement for abstraction; it perhaps tells us something about Kandinsky's notion of realism, however, that he saw Henri Rousseau as the great champion of the movement to establish a new realism.
Academic text (1997) -
The New Realism is a philosophical movement that emphasizes the direct knowledge of the external world.
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In contrast to idealism, the New Realism asserts that reality exists independently of our perceptions.
Synonyms
Belief that physical things exist even when no one sees them
Surface Forms
Morphology
The label 'New Realism' is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'new' (recent) and 'realism' (a philosophical view about the external world) can infer it designates a recent form or movement of realism. Although detailed philosophical claims require specialized knowledge, the basic sense 'a new variant of realism' is directly derivable from the constituents and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
New Realism comes from early 20th-century philosophers who wanted a fresh, 'new' way to express realism, the simple idea that the outside world really exists and can be known directly. So the name joins new and realism to show the movement's meaning: a modern view that things exist independently of our minds.
