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US
/ˈnætʃɝəˌɫɪzəm, ˈnætʃɹəˌɫɪzəm/
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[ UK /nˈætʃəɹəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /nˈætʃəɹəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
- an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
How To Use naturalism In A Sentence
- In France Zola was the dominant practitioner of naturalism in prose fiction and the chief exponent of its doctrines.
- We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.
- This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
- His stay in Italy, where he encountered Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, was decisive for his art.
- Such trade pieces became highly stylized, showing little of the naturalism of precolonial works.
- It's just an amazing range - from Greek-like naturalism to total abstraction.
- And of course, it is impossible to speak of Gillian Welch or Revival without mentioning "Annabelle," perhaps the single finest example of contemporary musical naturalism:We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule Archive 2006-10-01
- Most often, ˜non-naturalism™ denotes the metaphysical thesis that moral properties exist and are not identical with or reducible to any natural property or properties in some interesting sense of ˜natural™. Moral Non-Naturalism
- There's a mix of naturalism and stylization that is not, but almost, perfectly achieved in his images of animals on the cover.
- His naturalism shades over to obscure fantasy.