ˈveritism orig. and chiefly U.S.
[f. verit-y + -ism.]
= verism. So ˈveritist, veriˈtistic a. = verist, veristic a.
| 1894 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 53/2 Veritism is the name by which devils are to be cast out, and the artist himself is to be a veritist. 1894 H. Garland in Forum (N.Y.) Aug. 690 My own conception is that realism (or veritism) is the truthful statement of an individual impression corrected by reference to the fact. Ibid., The veritist chooses for his subject not the impossible, not even the possible, but always the probable. Ibid. 693 The critic cannot distinguish between the entirely fictitious characters of the veritistic novel and the characters drawn from life. |