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Naturalistic  adj.  
1.
Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
2.
Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime."





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"Naturalistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the science of the results of undifferentiated association is Voelkerpsychologie, folk psychology. The science of products of differentiated association has no special name; its subject matter is the whole of historical civilization considered as a psychological naturalistic phenomenon. As soon as we follow the ramification still further we have to do with the special kinds of these products, that is, with the volitions, thoughts, appreciations and beliefs. In the undifferentiated associations they give us morals and habits, ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various
... psychological phenomena and relates it to dreams, he could not help recognizing that one cannot ignore the supernatural character of Biblical prophecy without being untrue to the Bible. He accordingly adds to the above naturalistic explanation a number of conditions which practically have the effect of taking the bottom out of the psychological theory. If Judah Halevi insists that only Israelites in the land of Palestine and at the time of their political independence had the privilege of the ...
— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik
... genre pictures. We have long had such serious figure-painters as Thayer and Brush, Dewing and Weir. The late Louis Loeb was attempting figure subjects of a very elaborate sort. To-day every exhibition shows an increasing number of worthy efforts at figure-painting in either the naturalistic or the ideal vein. We have pictures with subjects intelligently chosen and intelligibly treated, pictures with a pattern and a clear arrangement of line and mass, pictures soundly drawn and harmoniously colored as ...
— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox


Words linked to "Naturalistic" :   naturalism, representational, realistic


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