Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Realism in art and literature.
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- noun art, literature Presenting
common , everyday subjects, specificallyeschewing theheroic orlegendary . - noun art A movement in the late 19th century, related to
realism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian verismo, from vero, true, from Latin vērus; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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You may select from more than 20,000 verism tapes, several hundred of which ... have only recently been added to the collection.
All Our Yesterdays 1966
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Reymont learned from Zola's work as a whole - its searching description of the environment, its orchestral mass effects, its uncompromising verism, and the harmonious working together of external nature and human life.
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Raw and desperate almost to the point of verism, this laptop duo - who started as an art project - are revolutionary reaction personified, just in time, even if the straights won't ever bite.
whichbe commented on the word verism
Artistic preference of the everyday to the legendary. (From The Phrontistery)
July 5, 2008
qms commented on the word verism
Compiling my beach reading queue
I like an O’Brian or two.
But swashbuckling numbers
Disrupt my sweet slumbers -
At bedtime verism will do.
May 3, 2018