Medical Definition of immunocompetence. : the capacity for a normal immune response altered the immunocompetence of the lymphocytes.
Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is literature, painting, and film that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, share in common an acceptance of magic in the rational world.
Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life â a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict â but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy.riters in this sub-category of realism are said to depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language. The term formed the title of the Summer 1983 edition of Granta, for which Buford wrote an explanatory introduction: