belief vs realism

belief

noun
  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 

  • Something believed. 

realism

noun
  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. 

  • The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation. 

  • A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them. 

  • An artistic representation of reality as it is. 

How often have the words belief and realism occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )