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Realism vs Verism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between realism and verism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while verism is presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.

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

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    verism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (arts, literature) Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.
  • (arts) A movement in the late 19th century, related to realism