the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly

the summit was marked by a new mood of realism

the quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life

British soaps will stay because of their gritty realism

the doctrine that universals or abstract concepts have an objective or absolute existence. The theory that universals have their own reality is sometimes called Platonic realism because it was first outlined by Plato's doctrine of ‘forms’ or ideas