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Realistic vs Materialistic - What's the difference?

realistic | materialistic |

As adjectives the difference between realistic and materialistic

is that realistic is expressed or represented as being accurate while materialistic is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.

realistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed or represented as being accurate.
    • A ''realistic'' appraisal of the situation.
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.}}
  • Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
    • A ''realistic'' novel about the Victorian poor.

    Antonyms

    * unrealistic * utopian

    Derived terms

    * realisticity * realisticness

    Related terms

    * real * realism * realist * reality * realize

    Anagrams

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    materialistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
  • Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

    Related terms

    * materialism