Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pragmatism \Prag"ma*tism\, n.
   The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the
   pragmatic, or philosophical, method.

         The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance
         belongs to the pragmatism of the history. --A. Murphy.

Source : WordNet®

pragmatism
     n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are
          the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
     2: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring
        practicality and literal truth [syn: {realism}]