The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pragmatism \Prag"ma*tism\, n.
   The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the
   pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
   [1913 Webster]

         The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance
         belongs to the pragmatism of the history. --A. Murphy.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, pragmatism]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "pragmatism":
   Marxism, R and D, animalism, atomism, behaviorism,
   commonsense realism, control, control experiment,
   controlled experiment, cut and try, dialectical materialism,
   down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism,
   epiphenomenalism, experiment, experimental design,
   experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism,
   experimentation, freedom from illusion, functional design,
   functional furniture, functionalism, hardheadedness,
   historical materialism, hit and miss, hylomorphism, hylotheism,
   hylozoism, lack of feelings, materialism, matter-of-factness,
   mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism,
   noble experiment, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy,
   positivism, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness,
   pragmaticism, rationality, realism, reasonableness,
   representative realism, research and development, rule of thumb,
   saneness, scientism, secularism, sensibleness, sober-mindedness,
   substantialism, temporality, tentative method, tentativeness,
   testing, trial, trial and error, trying, unidealism,
   unromanticalness, unsentimentality, utilitarianism, worldliness