realist

One who is inclined to literal truth and pragmatism.

A practitioner of artistic or philosophic realism.

A logician who holds that the essences of natural classes have some mode of being in the real things: in this sense distinguished as a scholastic realist; opposed to nominalist.

A philosopher who believes in the real existence of the external world as independent of all thought about it, or, at least, of the thought of any individual or any number of individuals.

In literature and art, a believer in or a practiser of realism; one who represents persons or things as he conceives them to be in real life or in nature; an opponent of idealism or romanticism.

One who advocates technical as opposed to classical education; one who upholds the method of the real-schools.

Of or pertaining to realism; realistic; naturalistic.

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary.