1
as in truth
agreement with fact or reality
some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation
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as in reality
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factuality
Noun
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Instead of building closeness, some truths erode it—especially when honesty is delivered without care, context, or concern for the person on the receiving end.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026 -
Epistemia is a name for a flaw in how people interpret these models, in which linguistic plausibility is taken as a surrogate for truth.—
Walter Quattrociocchi,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2026
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While washing separate loads of darks, lights, kitchen, and bath towels is the professional launderer’s goal, in reality, running that many separate loads isn’t always practical or easy to pack into an already busy schedule.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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In reality, the effect a low-gravity environment would have on the human body over time would be withering.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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The National Park Service routinely updates exhibits across the park system to ensure historical accuracy and completeness.—
Laura Fay,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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This requires clinicians to evaluate for accuracy and voice—patients like hearing back from their clinician in their own voice.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
17 Feb. 2026
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In June, Hawkins, 49, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty to felony aiding an offender by being an accomplice after the fact for helping Powers.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
17 Feb. 2026
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The fact that the fabric also sported a *gasp* sparkly finish?—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
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Brands need to choose authenticity over showmanship and insight over ornament.—
Yiling Pan,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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Although the authenticity of the notes still has not been verified, the loss of any possible line of communication is not a good sign.—
Elizabeth Hartfield,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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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
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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
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“Factuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factuality. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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