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Reality

//ɹiːˈælɪti// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English.
Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being actual or real; realness. uncountable, usually

    "The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend."

  2. 2
    the quality possessed by something that is real wordnet
  3. 3
    The real world. uncountable, usually

    "A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning."

  4. 4
    all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you wordnet
  5. 5
    A real entity, event, or other fact. uncountable, usually

    "The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death."

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  1. 6
    the state of being actual or real wordnet
  2. 7
    The entirety of all that is real. uncountable, usually

    "Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! Of REALITY! ITSELF!"

  3. 8
    the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be wordnet
  4. 9
    An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real. uncountable, usually
  5. 10
    Loyalty; devotion. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "To express our reality to the emperor."

  6. 11
    Realty; real estate. obsolete, uncountable, usually
  7. 12
    Reality television. attributive, uncountable, usually

    "a foray into reality programming"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.

Etymology 2

From reality.

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