actuality

nounsomething that truly exists, is real

Synonyms for actuality

noun something that truly exists, is real

Antonyms for actuality

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "power, efficacy," from Old French actualite and directly from Medieval Latin actualitatem (nominative actualitas), from Late Latin actualis (see actual). A Latin loan-translation of Greek energeia. Meaning "state of being real" is from 1670s (actualities "existing conditions" is from 1660s).

Example Sentences for actuality

Its hardness, solidity, and actuality could not be gainsaid.

She saw all this mentally; but would it avail anything in actuality?

A tale comparable to “Convict 99” in its actuality and holding interest.

It is an actuality,—an active, aggressive, and progressive reality.

But awakened to the actuality of what he now had dared, he was ashamed to go further.

It is in such things that the detective of actuality differs from the detective of fiction.

We must therefore also have Rest Camps in name if not in actuality.

No two observers ever saw it alike, and no imagination could vision the actuality.

She believes in the actuality of life, and in her own part therein.

Being metal, they could not, of actuality, be carried into the transition.

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