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say it: REE-uh-list
realist is a noun meaning "a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them". It is pronounced /ˈɹiəlɪst/ — REE-uh-list. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for realist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.