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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, commonsense, commonsense philosopher, cosmotheistic, dialectical materialist, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, epistemological realist, eudaemonistic, existential, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, natural realist, naturalist, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, physicist, positivist, positivistic, practical, practical person, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatist, rational, rationalistic, realistic, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensationalistic, sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, worldly

Dictionary Results for realist:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

realist
    n 1: a philosopher who believes that universals are real and
         exist independently of anyone thinking of them
    2: a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals
       with it accordingly
    3: a painter who represents the world realistically and not in
       an idealized or romantic style

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Realist \Re"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]aliste.]
   1. (Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who
      maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the
      genera and species of things, represent real existences,
      and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in
      his work. See Realism, 2.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or
      efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary.
      [PJC]

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