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naturalism
noun
(nat-u-ral-ism)
an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
Synonyms:
realism
,
naturalism
noun
(nat-u-ral-ism)
(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
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spareness
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brushwork
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conventionality
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neorealism
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figuration
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symbolist
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mozartian
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metafiction
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sensibility
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attitudinizing
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literalness
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contemporaneity
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pathos
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camerawork
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anouilh
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poetics
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abstract expressionism
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sentimentality
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shavian
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ethereality
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essentialism
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serialism
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prettiness
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eroticism
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daintiness
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angularity
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sensuousness
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primitivist
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dramaturgy
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plainness
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expressivity
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solitariness
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artistry
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dandyism
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deconstructionist
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suggestiveness
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exactitude
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doubleness
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