actuality

actuality

noun

Definition of ACTUALITY

1

the fact of being or of being real <the actuality of the Abominable Snowman is not taken seriously by scientists>

Synonyms actuality, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness

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

Near Antonyms absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtuality

Antonyms inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality

2

the quality of being actual <the actuality of equal opportunity depends on more than just having laws that supposedly ensure it>

Synonyms actuality, factuality, materiality, reality

Related Words authenticity, genuineness, truth, verity

Near Antonyms fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, fictitiousness; dreaminess, surreality

Antonyms irreality, unreality

3

the state of being actual or complete <the actuality of a manned flight to the moon would never have been believed a hundred years ago>

Synonyms accomplishment, achievement, actuality, actualization, attainment, consummation, fulfillment (or fulfilment), pass, realization

Related Words success, triumph

Near Antonyms defeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccess

Antonyms naught (also nought), nonfulfillment

4

something that actually exists <these estimated tax revenues, from casinos that have yet to be built, are being treated as actualities>

Synonyms actuality, case, materiality, reality

Related Words certainty, inevitability; circumstance, event, occurrence, phenomenon; element, item, particular, thing

Near Antonyms eventuality, possibility, potentiality, probability

Antonyms fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, illusion