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Naturalistic   Listen
adjective
Naturalistic  adj.  
1.
Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
2.
Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Naturalistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. The pride of life and glory of the world will shrivel. It is after all but the standing quarrel of hot youth and hoary eld. Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... sins, and that He only carried through life a stainless garment, and went down to the grave never having needed, and not needing then, the exercise of divine forgiveness? Brethren, I venture to say that it is hopeless to account for Jesus Christ on naturalistic principles; and that either you must give up your belief in His sinlessness, or advance, as the Christian Church as a whole advanced, to the other belief, on which alone that perfectness is explicable: 'Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ! Thou art ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Naturalistic" :   naturalism, representational, realistic



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