Visionary vs. Realist

Visionaryadjective

having vision or foresight

Visionaryadjective

imaginary or illusory

Visionaryadjective

prophetic or revelatory

Visionaryadjective

idealistic or utopian

Visionarynoun

someone who has visions; a seer

Visionarynoun

an impractical dreamer

Visionarynoun

someone who has positive ideas about the future

Visionaryadjective

Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.

Visionaryadjective

Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.

Visionaryadjective

Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.

Visionarynoun

One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.

Visionarynoun

One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.

Visionarynoun

a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

Visionarynoun

a person with unusual powers of foresight

Visionaryadjective

not practical or realizable; speculative;

Visionary

Defined broadly, a visionary is one who can envision the future. For some groups this can involve the supernatural.

Realistnoun

(philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.

Realistnoun

One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.

Realistnoun

An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.

Realistnoun

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Realistnoun

An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

Realistnoun

a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary.

Realistnoun

a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them

Realistnoun

a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly

Realistnoun

a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style