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Realism vs Neorealism - What's the difference?

realism | neorealism |

As nouns the difference between realism and neorealism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while neorealism is a movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.

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

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism ----

    neorealism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia neorealism) (en-noun)
  • (arts) A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life