Religious vs Realism - What's the difference?
religious | realism |
Concerning religion.
Committed to the practice of religion.
Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
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
As nouns the difference between religious and realism
is that religious is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.As an adjective religious
is concerning religion.religious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Antonyms
* (concerning religion) * (committed to religion) * (highly dedicated)Hyponyms
* Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, , Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, ConfucianistNoun
(religious)- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious , Scholastica.