different between realism vs mythicism

English

Etymology

real +? -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.?l?zm/ enPR: REE-ahl-izm

Noun

realism (countable and uncountable, plural realisms)

1. A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
2. An artistic representation of reality as it is.
3. (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
4. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.

Antonyms

• (doctrine concerning universals): nominalism, antirealism

Hyponyms

• legal realism
• moral realism

Translations

See also

• idealism

References

• realism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• realism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "realism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 257.
• realism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Marlise, Raelism, Raëlism, almries, mailers, remails

Estonian

Noun

realism (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. realism

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Etymology

From French réalisme.

Noun

realism n (uncountable)

1. realism

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

reell +? -ism

Noun

realism c

1. realism

Declension

Related terms

• realist
• realistisk

References

• Realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)

English

Etymology

From myth +? -icism. In occasional use since the 1840s.

The earliest use of the term was in Christian theology, in reference to the "Mythic Theory" of D. F. Strauss (1835). The more general sense appears from the 1870s.

Noun

mythicism (countable and uncountable, plural mythicisms)

1. (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data
   • 1845: "Truly, if the caput mortuum of Christianity which mythicism leaves us, be all that is true of our religion, our feelings would tempt us to forgive the Evangelists who have so beautifully deceived, rather than the critics who so coldly disenchant us." (The Christian examiner, vol. 39, p. 160)
2. the habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism
   • 1911 "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian mythicism." (R. G. Badger, Don Sagasto's daughter)
3. the creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia
   • 1971 "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their 'mythicism'." (Levi-Strauss)
   • 1998 "the playful animal familiars of the heroine [in Disney's Pocahontas] are real animals, because this is real mythicism, not pure imagination." (Ziauddin Sardar, Postmodernism and the other: the new imperialism of Western culture, p. 89)
4. the view that a certain figure is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship or conspiracy theories.
   1. (in particular) the opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist in any way whatsoever

Related terms

• mythicist