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/nˈætʃərəlˌɪzəm/ /nˈætʃrəlˌɪzəm/ Listen

Naturalism

noun

(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: realism.

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"Naturalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... earthly enjoyment. Such had been for ages the last lessons of all the 'mysteries' of the East—mysteries which it was the peculiar destiny of the Hebrew race to resist through ages of struggle. It was through the teaching of such mysteries of pantheistic naturalism that, as the unflinching Jewish deists and anthropomorphists believed, man fell, and their belief was set forth in their very first religious tradition—the history of the apple, the serpent, and the Fall. And it ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... but there was nothing mean or vulgar in the works of the former; on the contrary, it was with a pure and noble spirit that he endeavored to represent the perfections of youthful, manly beauty, and his naturalism was of a ...

— A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture • Clara Erskine Clement

... a fault, it was that he regarded all modern philosophy as sensuous naturalism; and if reason sometimes seemed to him suspicious, it was because he often confounded it with sophistry, which reasons indeed, but is far from ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

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