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Naturalistic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.

    "The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
  3. 3
    Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
  4. 4
    Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.; Recreational; nontherapeutic; self-administered. specifically
Adjective
  1. 1
    representing what is real; not abstract or ideal wordnet

Etymology

From naturalist + -ic or natural + -istic.

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