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(1):

(n.) Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life.

(2):

(n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory.

(3):

(n.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.

(4):

(n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Naturalism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/naturalism.html. 1828.
 
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