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]