Definition of Real world

1. Noun. The practical world as opposed to the academic world. "A good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world"

Exact synonyms: Real Life
Generic synonyms: Reality, World

Definition of Real world

1. Noun. The realm of human experience comprising physical objects, and excluding theoretical constructs, hypotheses, artificial environments, and "virtual" worlds such as the Internet, computer simulations, or the imagination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Real World

real part
real parts
real plane
real presence
real properties
real property
real storage
real stuff
real superhero
real superheroes
real tennis
real thing
real time
real valued
real vector space
real world (current term)
realer
reales
realest
realgar
realgars
realia
realign
realigned
realigner
realigners
realigning
realignment
realignments
realigns

Literary usage of Real world

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how but a premonition ..."

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"He wanted to meet in the real world the unsub- v stantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how but a ..."

3. Expanding Access to Science and Technology: The Role of Information by Ines Wesley-Tanaskovic, Jacques Tocatlian, Kenneth H. Roberts (1994)
"... Otsu ABSTRACT MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) began in 1992 a new 10-year programme called "Real-World Computing. ..."

4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"The real world to Him was the kingdom of God, and His real self was just that of a ... Why were they not His real world ? Because He would not have it so; ..."

5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"The real world to Him was the kingdom of God, and His real self was just that of a ... Why were they not His real world ? Because He would not have it so; ..."

6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"... grant that the spiritual world is a real world,—nay, the most real world,—and it follows, that whatsoever is represented in it has its basis in reality, ..."

7. A System of Metaphysics by George Stuart Fullerton (1904)
"CHAPTER XIV THE real world IN SPACE AND TIME THE preceding chapters have, I hope, ... The real world is, as it is sometimes expressed, a conceptual world. ..."

8. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"In the case of the unreflective but practical thinker, the question, what do you mean by a real world t is answered openly and without bias. ..."

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