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actuality
noun ac·tu·al·i·ty \ˌak-chə-ˈwa-lə-tē, ˌak-shə-\
: the quality or state of being actual or real
: something that is actual or real
plural ac·tu·al·i·ties
Full Definition of ACTUALITY
1
: the quality or state of being actual
2
: something that is actual : fact, reality <possible risks which have been seized upon as actualities — T. S. Eliot>
— in actuality
: in actual fact
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First Known Use of ACTUALITY
1618
Related to ACTUALITY
- Synonyms
- existence, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness
- Antonyms
- inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality
Rhymes with ACTUALITY
abnormality, amorality, animality, atonality, axiality, bestiality, bilinguality, bimodality, bipedality, cardinality, classicality, coevality, comicality, commonality, communality, conjugality, cordiality, corporality, criminality, criticality, ethicality, externality, factuality, farcicality, fictionality, functionality, generality, geniality, hospitality, ideality, illegality, immorality, immortality, informality, integrality, internality, irreality, joviality, lexicality, liberality, lineality, literality, logicality, lognormality, marginality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, notionality, nuptiality, optimality, parfocality, partiality, personality, physicality, practicality, principality, prodigality, punctuality, quizzicality, rationality, seasonality, sensuality, sexuality, siege mentality, sociality, speciality, subnormality, surreality, technicality, temporality, textuality, topicality, triviality, typicality, unmorality, unreality, verticality, virtuality, whimsicality
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