Explore Naturalism through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like realism. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Naturalism in a sentence
Naturalism meaning
- A state of nature; conformity to nature.
- The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in religious texts and in spiritual influences.
- Any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature as a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by a will.
Synonyms of Naturalism
Using Naturalism
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of nature; conformity to nature. | The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in religious texts and in spiritual influences. | Any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature as a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by a will.
- Useful related words include: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory, realism, artistic movement.
- In the example corpus, naturalism often appears in combinations such as: naturalism and, of naturalism, naturalism of.
Context around Naturalism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Naturalism
- In this selection, "naturalism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, easy, deeper, cognitive, stakes, stated and stresses stand out and add context to how "naturalism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a process naturalism i e and an absolute naturalism. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "naturalism" sits close to words such as absolve, acceptability and acetic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with naturalism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Brimham Rocks won the Naturalism Stakes on Saturday. (8 words)
Naturalism, for him, implied the indiscriminate reproduction of the surface of life. (12 words)
His acting went beyond the boundaries of naturalism into another kind of expression. (13 words)
They’re sort of endlessly going down the rabbit hole of deeper and deeper naturalism, always looking for more organic work where they don’t notice the film and can just be in it. (34 words)
Ethical naturalism does, however, reject the fact-value distinction : it suggests that inquiry into the natural world can increase our moral knowledge in just the same way it increases our scientific knowledge. (32 words)
Biological naturalism implies that one cannot determine if the experience of consciousness is occurring merely by examining how a system functions, because the specific machinery of the brain is essential. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Christopher Tonkin’s physical and vocal characterisation of Marcello is one of easy naturalism and likeability.
Brimham Rocks won the Naturalism Stakes on Saturday.
Naturalism, for him, implied the indiscriminate reproduction of the surface of life.
They’re sort of endlessly going down the rabbit hole of deeper and deeper naturalism, always looking for more organic work where they don’t notice the film and can just be in it.
Already evident was the intense realism or naturalism for which Caravaggio is now famous.
A school of Naturalism stated that the natural numbers were a direct consequence of the human psyche.
A thoughtful list of careful distinctions regarding the application of empirical science to these issues is found in citation Cognitive naturalism stresses the role of neurological sciences.
Bakunin was the first to give the struggle against theology the complete consistency of an absolute naturalism.
Biological naturalism implies that one cannot determine if the experience of consciousness is occurring merely by examining how a system functions, because the specific machinery of the brain is essential.
Both Putnam and Quine invoke naturalism to justify the exclusion of all non-scientific entities, and hence to defend the "only" part of "all and only".
Campbell (1998), 174 His work comes from the International Gothic style, but he soon eclipsed it, in part through a greater emphasis on naturalism and realism.
Cimabue was a pioneer in the move towards naturalism; his figures were depicted with more lifelike proportions and shading.
Context, p. 22 and Whether ID Is Science, p. 66. That intelligent design is not empirically testable stems from the fact that it violates a basic premise of science, naturalism.
Critics would later call the novel "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction.
C. Robert Mesle, for instance, advocates a "process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.
Directors such as Albert Capellani and Maurice Tourneur began to insist on naturalism in their films.
Ethical naturalism does, however, reject the fact-value distinction : it suggests that inquiry into the natural world can increase our moral knowledge in just the same way it increases our scientific knowledge.
Finally Praxiteles seems to be released from any art and religious conformities, and his masterpieces are a mixture of naturalism with stylization.
He sought naturalism in acting, which was unusual at the time, just as he strove for realistic visual elements.
His acting went beyond the boundaries of naturalism into another kind of expression.
Common combinations with naturalism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- naturalism and 9×
- of naturalism 7×
- naturalism of 6×
- the naturalism 5×
- naturalism for 3×
- on naturalism 3×
- naturalism in 3×
- methodological naturalism 3×
- or naturalism 2×
- naturalism to 2×