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Liberalism vs Realism - What's the difference?

liberalism | realism |

As nouns the difference between liberalism and realism

is that liberalism is the quality of being liberal while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

liberalism

English

Noun

  • The quality of being liberal.
  • Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
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  • An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market.

    • realism

    English

    (wikipedia realism)

    Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

    • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

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