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.
Broadly defined as the faithful representation of reality or verisimilitude, realism is a literary technique practiced by many schools of writing.Although strictly speaking, realism is a technique, it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life.ealism was a movement that encompassed the entire country, or at least the Midwest and South, although many of the writers and critics associated with realism (notably W. D. Howells) were based in New England.