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neorealism

noun

neorealism is spelled N-E-O-R-E-A-L-I-S-M: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, neorealism means “A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of neorealism is neorealisms.

How many letters and syllables are in neorealism?

Letters10: N-E-O-R-E-A-L-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is neorealism?

Neorealism appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of neorealism

  • neorealisms plural
  • neo-realism

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does neorealism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.

  2. 2

    A theory of international relations based on the idea that power is the most important factor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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