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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "action based on natural instincts," from natural + -ism . In philosophy, as a view of the world and humanity's relationship to it, from 1750. As a tendency in art and literature, from 1850.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Naturalism is a literary movement that emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality. Novelists writing in the naturalist mode include Émile Zola (its founder), Thomas Hardy , Theodore Dreiser , Stephen Crane , and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Believe in naturalism and you weaken your view of prayer. ▪ But this kind of excited appreciation of naturalism in characterisation was not yet hackneyed. ▪ Mainstream modernism has often measured its modernity in terms of how ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A state of nature; conformity to nature. 2 The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences. 3 (context philosophy English) Any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena ...

Usage examples of naturalism.

Kosmos does indeed have some sort of correlates in the Right-Hand dimension, it thus understandably appeared that scientific positivism and naturalism could and would cover all possible bases, because science does indeed register so many significant alterations in the Right-Hand world.

Art should ennoble, Langbehn said, so that naturalism, realism, anything which exposed the kind of iniquities that a Zola or a Mann drew attention to, was anathema.

It too is concerned with the inner state, and with an attempt to resolve the modern incoherence, to marry romanticism with naturalism, to order science, rationalism and democracy while at the same time highlighting their shortcomings and deficiencies.

That notion rather lies in the word Naturalism, which however is sometimes used as synonymous with Rationalism.

It has been well said that Naturalism is distinguished from Rationalism by rejecting all and every revelation of God, especially any extraordinary one through certain men.

Bretschneider, who has set on foot the best inquiry on this point, says that the word Rationalism has been confused with the word Naturalism since the appearance of the Kantian philosophy, and that it was introduced into theology by Reinhard and Gabler.

An accurate examination respecting these words gives the following results: The word Naturalism arose first in the sixteenth century, and was spread in the seventeenth.

An enlightened Supernaturalist will then very willingly confess that Naturalism may be professed with a semblance of reason and in good faith, and he can even consider it as a system of philosophy wherein are to be found fewer philosophical elements than in any other.

A remarkable activity of mind was observable in the theological world, and men of great learning and keen intellect began to apply the deductions of foreign naturalism to the sacred oracles.

While he opposes Naturalism, he also takes exception to the usual orthodox method of assailing it.

The first and all-important thing to be done by us is not to fight the naturalism outside of us, but that which is in us.

Their creed was a mixture of Cluniac Christianity, Virgin Cult-Earth Mother paganism, Druidic Naturalism, and, at least in the Scottish Highlands, a strong streak of Celtic nationalism.

It takes the facts of physical science at their face-value, and leaves the laws of life just as naturalism finds them, with no hope of remedy, in case their fruits are bad.

I figured that the world only needed one crazy dancing Duncan preaching Greek revival and naturalism.

These additions are tenets that seem crucial to an understanding of evolution and the Kosmos, but tenets that, for reasons we will be investigating in detail, simply cannot be established in the it-language of instrumental and objectifying naturalism (i.