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Recent Examples of facticity 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 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 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
  • Then there’s Frederik, a mercurial sort who’s a truth teller and can sometimes be found conducting loud classical music while cooking a gourmet meal.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • As other seemingly unconnected incidents start to happen around her (one friend goes missing, another is attacked), conspiracies are everywhere and Chloe must try to separate truth from fiction while fearing for her life.
    Kate Belli, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new facility is the first to operate with an advanced warehouse management system, which Macy’s expects to significantly improve efficiency and accuracy of fulfillment and store replenishment, while establishing a model that can be scaled across the company’s network in the years ahead.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Right now, there is a lot of doubt about the authenticity of things.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Both his writing and his therapy work involve a certain slant on what authenticity means in various contexts.
    Willing Davidson, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Facticity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facticity. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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