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actuality

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of actuality

1 the fact of being or of being real

  • the actuality of the Abominable Snowman is not taken seriously by scientists
Synonyms of actuality

corporality, corporeality, existence, reality, subsistence, thingness
Words Related to actuality

genuineness, realness

activity, animation, life

currency, presence, prevalence
Near Antonyms of actuality

absence, dearth, lack, want

potentiality, virtuality
Antonyms of actuality

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 of actuality

fact, factuality, materiality, reality
Words Related to actuality

authenticity, genuineness, truth, verity
Near Antonyms of actuality

fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, fictitiousness

dreaminess, surreality
Antonyms of actuality

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 of actuality

accomplishment, achievement, actualization, attainment, consummation, fruition, fulfillment (or fulfilment), pass, realization
Words Related to actuality

success, triumph
Near Antonyms of actuality

defeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccess
Antonyms of actuality

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 of actuality

case, fact, materiality, reality
Words Related to actuality

certainty, inevitability

circumstance, event, occurrence, phenomenon

element, item, particular, thing
Near Antonyms of actuality

eventuality, possibility, potentiality, probability
Antonyms of actuality

fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, illusion

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