facticity

fac·tic·i·ty

noun \fak-ˈti-sə-tē\

Definition of FACTICITY

: the quality or state of being a fact

Examples of FACTICITY

1. <the facticity of the information is not at issue; it's whether something so private should ever be made public>

Origin of FACTICITY

French or German; French facticité, from German Faktizität, from Factum fact, from Latin factum

First Known Use: 1945

Related to FACTICITY

Synonyms: truth, factuality, sooth, trueness, verity

Antonyms: falseness, falsity, untruth

Related Words: accuracy, accurateness, actuality, authenticity, correctness; credibility, honesty, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity; dependability, reliability

Near Antonyms: erroneousness, fallaciousness, fallacy; falsehood, fiction, half-truth, lie; impreciseness, imprecision, inaccuracy, incorrectness, inexactitude, inexactness; deceit, dishonesty, equivocation, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, prevarication, untruthfulness

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Rhymes with FACTICITY

basicity, causticity, centricity, chronicity, clonicity, conicity, cyclicity, ethnicity, felicity, lubricity, mendicity, plasticity, publicity, rhythmicity, seismicity, simplicity, spasticity, sphericity, tonicity, toxicity, triplicity