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facticity

noun fac·tic·i·ty \fak-ˈti-sə-tē\

Definition of FACTICITY

:  the quality or state of being a fact
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Origin of FACTICITY

French or German; French facticité, from German Faktizität, from Factum fact, from Latin factum
First Known Use: 1945

Related to FACTICITY

Synonyms
truth, factuality, sooth, trueness, verity
Antonyms
falseness, falsity, untruth

Rhymes with FACTICITY

basicity, causticity, centricity, chronicity, clonicity, conicity, cyclicity, ethnicity, felicity, lubricity, mendicity, plasticity, publicity, rhythmicity, seismicity, simplicity, spasticity, sphericity, tonicity, toxicity, triplicity

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