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reality
[ ree-al-i-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being real.
- resemblance to what is real.
- a real thing or fact.
- real things, facts, or events taken as a whole; state of affairs:
the reality of the business world; vacationing to escape reality.
- Philosophy.
- something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
- something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive.
- something that is real.
- something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent.
adjective
- noting or pertaining to a TV program or film that portrays nonactors interacting or competing with each other in real but contrived situations, allegedly without a script:
a popular reality show; reality TV.
reality
/ ɪˈæɪɪ /
noun
- the state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be
- something that is real
- the state of being real
- philosophy
- that which exists, independent of human awareness
- the totality of facts as they are independent of human awareness of them See also conceptualism Compare appearance
- in realityactually; in fact
Other Word Forms
- t··i·ٲ adjective
- ԴDzr·i·ٲ noun plural nonrealities
- r·i·ٲ noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- in reality, in fact or truth; actually:
brave in appearance, but in reality a coward.
Example Sentences
“But the reality is that Mr. Dixon had asked his supervisor about the hire and was told that there were no objections.”
So now I feel a little bit more . . . well, here’s the thing, look, they’re a reality.
The reality TV star and business woman was tied up and held at gunpoint in a luxury suite where she was staying during Paris Fashion Week.
Georgia also discovered a seldom acknowledged reality about work requirements — they’re immensely expensive to administer.
No words can better capture the reality in Gaza today than this: We are dying.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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