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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Cissie Graham Lynch, a senior advisor at Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said the fight over women’s sports is rooted in biblical truth as the Supreme Court heard arguments in cases involving laws designed to protect female athletes.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
14 Jan. 2026 -
Let me be run through with the wooden javelin of truth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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One doesn’t turn to Wodehouse for unflinching satire, politically correct views, or even reality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Sharing the video felt like a way to acknowledge that reality in an honest way.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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But for other, clinical use cases, the accuracy is too low for LLMs to be deployed safely — let alone AI agents that operate autonomously without human oversight.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Hope the Mission's maintenance supervisor Kelsin Orellana knows firsthand the importance of accuracy in Los Angeles' annual homeless count.—
Jasmine Viel,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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In fact, all five members are all still figuring out their lives and place in South Korea.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.—
Benjamin VanHoose,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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Audiences of Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum will remember Marilla for her authenticity and warmth on the show.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
12 Jan. 2026
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Can Exist in Authentic Architecture Story Hill Renovations is also seeing a growing desire for authenticity as a reason to keep the kitchen closed off.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Jan. 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 21 Jan. 2026.
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