Real-worlder

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.

    "Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick."

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realist

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"Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick."

Etymology

From real world + -er.

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