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Recent Examples of facticity Caruth’s determination to cleave simultaneously to the idea both that the traumatic memory is the only historic fact the individual possesses and that this facticity remains incapable of adequate representation is paradoxical bordering on the perverse. Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 This new discipline borrowed features from philology and belles lettres—period specialization and close reading, respectively—but abjured their emphasis on facticity and appreciation in favor of a new goal: interpretation. Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023 Conversant with digital media — iPhone animation, in Ms. Sillman’s case — yet committed to the facticity of paint. Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020 An effective story must have the unity and lyricism of a poem while giving the comforting facticity of a novel. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020 Molina seems to be trying to prove a point here, something about what can be lost by emphasizing the facticity and evidentiary value of archival research. Jacob Silverman, New Republic, 16 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for facticity
Noun
  • Longer term, this could feed the optimization layer with live flight-ops and crew-roster data so that disruption management and maintenance planning draw from a single source of truth.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • But her unruly secrets reflect the uncomfortable truths that are so often hidden in our own histories.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Jones has a lower ceiling, but he's shown more accuracy than Richardson so far.
    Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • His accuracy was really impressive Wednesday and Thursday.
    Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 20 June 2025

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“Facticity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facticity. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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