Naturalism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Naturalism	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naturalism n (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description Synonym(s): naturalism, realism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Naturalism \Nat"uralism\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.] 1. A state of nature; conformity to nature. 2. (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Naturalism \Nat"uralism\, n. 1. The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. 2. Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life.