Etimology
From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.
noun
reality (usually uncountable, plural realities)
The state of being actual or real; realness.
The real world.
A real entity, event, or other fact.
The entirety of all that is real.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
(obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
(law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.
Examples
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real.
A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.The spelling has been modernized.
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As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
And to realities yield all her shows.
My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
Given the economic realities of contemporary Poland, a requirement to provide information on movable assets which exceed PLN 10,000 in value cannot be held to be excessive.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! Of REALITY! ITSELF!
To express our reality to the emperor.
Related words
synonyms
truth
actuality
antonyms
fantasy
hyponyms
absolute reality
augmented reality
consensus reality
hybrid reality
mixed reality
real reality
virtual reality
related terms
realia
realism
realization
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realty