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Humanist vs Realist - What's the difference?

humanist | realist |

As a noun humanist

is humanist.

As an adjective realist is

.

humanist

Noun

(en noun)
  • a scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities
  • a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism
  • (historical) In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • relating to humanism or the humanities
  • (typography, of a typeface) Resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
  • Antonyms

    * nonhumanist ----

    realist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
  • Aristotle's own doctrine is far from clear. It was this lack of clarity that made possible the medieval controversy between nominalists and realists .
  • One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.
  • (arts, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
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