fantasist vs realist

fantasist

noun
  • One who creates fantasies. 

  • One living in a fantasy world. 

  • A writer who writes in the fantasy style. 

realist

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

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

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

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