Definition of "verism" []

• Realism in art and literature. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You may select from more than 20,000 verism tapes, several hundred of which ... have only recently been added to the collection."
• "Reymont learned from Zola's work as a whole - its searching description of the environment, its orchestral mass effects, its uncompromising verism, and the harmonious working together of external nature and human life."
• "Raw and desperate almost to the point of verism, this laptop duo - who started as an art project - are revolutionary reaction personified, just in time, even if the straights won't ever bite."