actuality
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6.5
- noun
- /ˌæktʃuˈælɪti/
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realidad
- So again, you have a situation where the forecast and the actuality don't match.
- actuality and potentiality
- virtuality and actuality
Self consciousness, hence existence and actuality within itself.
- Self consciousness, hence existence and actuality within itself.
- Things exist as actuality, as having a worldly presence.
- And so not everyone was afforded the rights in actuality that were declared in principle.
- Fight like hell to make that lie, that delusion, the actuality, the truth.
- So again, you have a situation where the forecast and the actuality don't match.
- But then at some point the two possibilities need to collapse to just one actuality.
- I do not believe that that's correct yet to start with some potentiality that becomes actuality.
- When when in all actuality, the problem is that you have a massive wealth disparity, right?
- We're acting on perceived benefits that turn out to have a much more disappointing actuality.
Examples
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You know, in actuality, Lobo would have to struggle with that problem every day.
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Although the instances described above will surprise few readers, in actuality almost all businesses and industries use geometry.
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We have some sort of given actuality in front of us.
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I mean, but in all actuality, these two things are are the same person.
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In actuality he left me two million dollars in debt.
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In actuality, that water level was dangerously low.
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Now you think I think I'm all that when in actuality I really am humbled by all this.
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In actuality, I'd prefer to be called Dr. Edelstein.
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In actuality, Peter couldn't even claim that he gave the old man's heart a fright.
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The actuality of climate change is evident in rising sea levels and increasing temperatures.
Synonyms
∞
1.4
The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish
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2.8
The state of being real or alive
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4.6
The quality of being true and not fake
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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 fact that something really exists
The degree to which something matches true information or real events
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Actuality comes from the Latin word actus, which means 'to do' and is the same root as the common word act. So, actuality is about what really exists or what actually happens, not what might only be possible.