realism

As nouns the difference between progressivism and realism

is that progressivism is a political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society and ultimately the fulfillment of Karl Marx's predictions while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a noun realism

is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As an adjective surrealistic is

surreal.

As nouns the difference between interpretivism and realism

is that interpretivism is antipositivism while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As nouns the difference between realism and realness

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while realness is the state of being real; reality.

As nouns the difference between normativity and realism

is that normativity is the state of being normative while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a noun realism is

a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a noun realism is

a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

In philosophy terms the difference between realism and essentialism

is that realism is a doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them while essentialism is the view that objects have properties that are essential to them.

As nouns the difference between realism and essentialism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while essentialism is the view that objects have properties that are essential to them.