Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

naïve realist

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables: naive re-al-ist
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who advocates naïve realism.

adj

Of or pertaining to naïve realism.

Example Sentences

"In conclusion, it will be noticed that we have talked about nerves and matter, etc., from the standpoint of a naïve realist but of course our theory can be interpreted into terms of Idealism."
"So the naïve realist account of perceptual experience cannot be correct for the case of hallucinatory experience, and more generally cannot be directly applied to any case of delusive experience, such as illusions where one does perceive an external object, but misperceives it as other than it really is."

Inflected Forms

naïve realists (plural) naive realist (alternative) more naïve realist (comparative) most naïve realist (superlative)

Questions

What does naïve realist mean?: Someone who advocates naïve realism.

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