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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 factuality
Your mileage may vary with senseless AI text as a source of amusement, but there’s something to be said about foregrounding AI’s often absurd flaws and its potential for misuse, rather than dressing it up as some impartial arbiter of factuality.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
In the realm of AI factuality, 9 out of 10 isn’t even that bad.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
In the realm of AI factuality, 9 out of 10 isn’t even that bad.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factuality
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In part, that’s because for much of the history of the three main themes of the anti-vaccine case, there was always at least some truth, something plausible, in these long-standing objections to vaccination.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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This is a perfect example of how facts aren’t the only way to convey truth and how difficult that balance can be.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
10 June 2026
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Residents of Russia’s largest cities have largely been sheltered from the daily realities of Russia’s war with Ukraine, now in its fifth year.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
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But the reality for most users differs from the expectations that brought them to the site.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
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The commitment to accuracy extended beyond the stage costumes.—
Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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The kinds of language and reasoning models that can run locally on an iPhone or Mac are relatively small, limiting their capabilities and accuracy.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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In fact, Staal became the fourth player in the expansion era (since 1968) to record a goal in the first four games of a Cup Final.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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In fact, what’s the point of a short story at all?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Unlike impersonators, who pretend to be Elvis and sometimes present a characterized version of the king, tribute artists strive for authenticity.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2026
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There's no point in trying to be somebody else apart from yourself because people want authenticity and real human music and human connection.—
Jack Irvin,
PEOPLE,
8 June 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
Cite this Entry
“Factuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factuality. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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