naturalistic
/nˌætʃɚəlˈɪstɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
adj
Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
adj
Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
Example Sentences
- "The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures."
- "Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger."
Etymology
From natural + -istic.