A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.

plural of reality check

A person who believes that empirical evidence exists to support the notion of inborn racial differences, sometimes used euphemistically to justify racism (racial discrimination).

Pertaining to the belief that scientific evidence exists for inborn racial differences, sometimes used to support racial discrimination, or the idea that some racial groups are inferior to others.

(psychology) The controversial hypothesis that people suffering from depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality than those who do not have it.

An art and film movement that critically portrays the everyday lives of the working class and the poor.

plural of realisability

(euphemistic) Synonym of scientific racism

A genre of pornography with staged scenes, usually shot in cinéma vérité fashion, that set up sexual encounters.

(philosophy) A movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).