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reality
[ ree-al-i-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being real.
- resemblance to what is real.
- a real thing or fact.
- real things, facts, or events taken as a whole; state of affairs:
the reality of the business world; vacationing to escape reality.
- Philosophy.
- something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
- something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive.
- something that is real.
- something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent.
adjective
- noting or pertaining to a TV program or film that portrays nonactors interacting or competing with each other in real but contrived situations, allegedly without a script:
a popular reality show; reality TV.
reality
/ ɪˈæɪɪ /
noun
- the state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be
- something that is real
- the state of being real
- philosophy
- that which exists, independent of human awareness
- the totality of facts as they are independent of human awareness of them See also conceptualism Compare appearance
- in realityactually; in fact
Other 51Թ Forms
- t··i·ٲ adjective
- ԴDzr·i·ٲ noun plural nonrealities
- r·i·ٲ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- in reality, in fact or truth; actually:
brave in appearance, but in reality a coward.
Example Sentences
No civics textbook could prepare students for the realities of power that kept the nation’s war machine on a rampage, taking several million lives in Southeast Asia or supplying weapons making possible genocide in Gaza.
Labour's Ian Byrne, who represents Liverpool West Derby, told fellow MPs: "The reality is that prices are far too high already, especially for younger fans."
The dream of prosperity he sold when he took power 13 years ago has not become reality.
But the reality is there are not many contests this year, not least because some have been postponed because of an imminent shake-up in local government structures in some places.
Some 18 months on, he says the reality is that people on both sides of the political aisle promptly disengaged with Indigenous issues after the referendum.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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