noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The belief that actuality and existence are co‐extensive: i.e., that only actual things exist, and merely possible things do not. countable, uncountable

Antonyms

All antonyms

possibilism

Etymology

From actual + -ism.

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