representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers"
a style of art in which objects are represented to look as they appear in nature; mimesis (ATA fig. 1-12) ave. the central section of a basilica [image
level: Basic (2) [ order by level] Category of moral theories asserting that morality can be derived from, or defined in terms of, natural or empirical phenomena.