Naturalism
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Naturalism is a movement in theatre, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. By connotation Naturalism is pessimistic.
Naturalism may refer to:
- Naturalism (philosophy), any of several philosophical stances wherein all phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled as supernatural, are either false, unknowable, or not inherently different from natural phenomena or hypotheses
- Natural history, a broad area of the natural sciences concerned with living things
- Naturalism (art), an artistic style
- Naturalism (literature), a literary, cinematic, or theatrical style
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