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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2
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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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
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The script is very confusing to read, cutting back and forth between the dream world and reality.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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Jurists, politicians, and the public had to invent and accept new concepts to deal with emerging realities.—
John Wihbey,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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In fact, Kondo even argues that the need to clear the space around us and to tidy things away is just as widespread and common as the religious tendency.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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Bitcoin and ether’s comparative resilience is largely due to the fact that the two largest cryptos by market capitalization are older and more well established than alternative digital assets, GSR head of content and special projects Frank Chaparro told CNBC.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Right now, there is a lot of doubt about the authenticity of things.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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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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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 23 Oct. 2025.
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