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factuality

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of factuality

1 agreement with fact or reality

  • some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation
Synonyms of factuality

facticity, sooth, trueness, truth, verity
Words Related to factuality

accuracy, accurateness, actuality, authenticity, correctness

credibility, honesty, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity

dependability, reliability
Near Antonyms of factuality

erroneousness, fallaciousness, fallacy

falsehood, fiction, half-truth, lie

impreciseness, imprecision, inaccuracy, incorrectness, inexactitude, inexactness

deceit, dishonesty, equivocation, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, prevarication, untruthfulness
Antonyms of factuality

falseness, falsity, untruth

2 the quality of being actual

  • although this account of the scheme seems like it must be fiction, its very factuality makes it all the more fascinating
Synonyms of factuality

actuality, fact, materiality, reality
Words Related to factuality

authenticity, genuineness, truth, verity
Near Antonyms of factuality

fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, fictitiousness

dreaminess, surreality
Antonyms of factuality

irreality, unreality

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