facticity
- noun
- /fæktɪsɪti/
- Formal
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facticidad
- One accused the book's critics of confusing "facticity" with historical truth.
And this is going beyond just the the sheer facticity of things are the way they are.
- And this is going beyond just the the sheer facticity of things are the way they are.
Examples
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The letters, particularly those in the central "CURLINE" sign, have been rendered in loose, looping paint strokes that reassert the facticity of the canvas surface.
Academic text (2011) -
Within Parmenides' account of the access to being, the way of addressing and illuminating it, "a basic phenomenon of facticity" stands out.
Academic text (2017) -
And this is going beyond just the the sheer facticity of things are the way they are.
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Facticity and racism
Academic text (1998) -
I argue the facticity of my findings on the basis of the accepted prior facticity of the myriad experiences that make up the bodies of knowledge whose applicability to politics concerns me.
Academic text (1990) -
I argue the facticity of my findings on the basis of the accepted prior facticity of the myriad experiences that make up the bodies of knowledge whose applicability to politics concerns me.
Academic text (1990) -
On the other hand, it is primary facticity (i.e., not an idealized construction) that ontologically precedes any other mode of being-in-the-world.
Academic text (2016) -
Ruscha's inaugural use of the car as a vehicle mediating active articulation transforms the work's seeming banal facticity and initially apparent neutral indifference.
Academic text (2005) -
In this realization that the structure of temporality compressed within the epiphanic short story could be their achievement, they mastered the paradox of brevity in the service of women's time with its access to the material facticity of sensation, change, and process as well as its full knowledge.
Academic text (1993) -
The theory emphasizes the facticity of human experiences as the foundation for understanding reality.
Synonyms
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1.0
A fact that shows how things really are
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2.8
The state of being real or alive
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6.5
The state of being real rather than possible
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9.9
A state of existing
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6.5
A quality of being true and based on real information
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8.3
How much something is shown or said to be true
The degree to which something matches true information or real events
Being true and accurate about real facts
How accurate something is compared with facts or a standard
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Facticity comes from the same root as fact, which means 'a thing that is real or done', so it refers to the quality of being a fact or having real, actual existence.