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Ynotisay until they usurp most definitions from the dictionaries, they are non entities!
https://www.wordnik.com/words/realist
noun One who is inclined to literal truth and pragmatism.
noun A practitioner of artistic or philosophic realism.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A logician who holds that the essences of natural classes have some mode of being in the real things: in this sense distinguished as a scholastic realist; opposed to nominalist.
noun A philosopher who believes in the real existence of the external world as independent of all thought about it, or, at least, of the thought of any individual or any number of individuals.
noun In literature and art, a believer in or a practiser of realism; one who represents persons or things as he conceives them to be in real life or in nature; an opponent of idealism or romanticism.
noun One who advocates technical as opposed to classical education; one who upholds the method of the real-schools.
Of or pertaining to realism; realistic; naturalistic.
