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naturalism |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naturalism \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.] 1. A state of nature; conformity to nature. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naturalism \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. 1. 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. 2. Specif., 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: naturalism n 1: the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations 2: an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: {realism}]
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