1. a person who rejects or denies the existence of objective reality or the correspondence between beliefs and reality
Usage: philosophy
2. a person who opposes realism in art, literature, or other creative fields
Usage: arts and literature

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of antirealism or antirealists
Usage: philosophy, arts

Examples

• The antirealist philosopher argued that mathematical objects do not exist independently of human thought.
• She adopted an antirealist stance toward objective truth in her critical theory.
• Antirealist artists rejected the conventions of representational painting.
• His antirealist approach to ethics challenged the idea of universal moral facts.
• The antirealist movement in literature emphasized subjective experience over factual accuracy.
• Some antirealist thinkers question whether the external world exists as we perceive it.