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| nat·u·ral·ism [ náchərə lìzzəm, náchrə lìzzəm ] |
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1. artistic movement advocating realistic description: in art or literature, a movement or school advocating factual or realistic description of life, including its less pleasant aspects. In literature, it is applied especially to Zola, Maupassant, and other 19th-century French writers. In the visual arts, it refers to the practice of faithfully representing subjects.
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2. belief in religious truth from nature: a belief that all religious truth is derived from nature and natural causes, and not from revelation
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3. doctrine rejecting spiritual explanations of world: a system of thought that rejects all spiritual and supernatural explanations of the world and holds that science is the sole basis of what can be known
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