As nouns the difference between melodrama and realism
is that
melodrama is a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes while
realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
melodrama Noun
(archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
(countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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(uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
Derived terms
* melodramatic
* melodramatics
* melodramatist
* melodramatize
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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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