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Naturalism may refer to:

Arts

Realism
- Naturalism (literature), a literary movement beginning in the late 19th century
- Naturalism (theatre), a movement in European drama and theatre
- Poetic naturalism, an approach of Sean M. Carroll

Naturalism (philosophy), the idea that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe
- Humanistic naturalism, a branch of philosophical naturalism
- Liberal naturalism, a heterodox form of philosophical naturalism
- Metaphysical naturalism, a philosophical basis for science
- Religious naturalism – combines a naturalist worldview with ideals associated with many religions
- Spiritual naturalism – combines a naturalist approach with spiritual ways of looking at the world
- Transcendental naturalism – combines a naturalist approach with the idea that human cognition is fundamentally incapable of solving certain philosophical problems
Ethical naturalism, or moral naturalism
Dialectical naturalism, a term coined by Murray Bookchin
Political naturalism, a belief that there is a natural law
School of Naturalists, a Chinese Warring States-era philosophy also known as the School of Yin-Yang

Sociological naturalism, the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical
- Critical naturalism, an idea of Roy Bhaskar
Natural history, a domain of inquiry involving organisms
- Naturalist, a person who studies natural history
Naturalistic observation, a research methodology