actuality

ac·tu·al·i·ty

noun \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

Examples of ACTUALITY

1. The actuality was quite different from the theory.
2. <the actuality of the Abominable Snowman is not taken seriously by scientists>

First Known Use of ACTUALITY

1618

Related to ACTUALITY

Synonyms

existence, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness

Antonyms

inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality

Related Words

genuineness, realness; activity, animation, life; currency, presence, prevalence

Near Antonyms

absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtuality

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