actuality
[ak-choo-al-i-tee]
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Origin of actuality
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Examples from the Web for actuality
Contemporary Examples
In actuality, there were less than 300 U.S. soldiers in the valley at any given time.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban ValleyMatt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman
November 15, 2014
In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth.
The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical HeroRegina Lizik
October 28, 2014
But in actuality, the novel contains ample material that points to a real and specific time and place.
To BE is to exist, to have actuality; a BI is a guy or girl with bisexuality.
There is a need to humanize plans that work on paper, in the abstract, but lack touchy-feely elements in actuality.
Historical Examples
Its hardness, solidity, and actuality could not be gainsaid.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
She saw all this mentally; but would it avail anything in actuality?
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
A tale comparable to “Convict 99” in its actuality and holding interest.
The White LieWilliam Le Queux
It is an actuality,—an active, aggressive, and progressive reality.
But awakened to the actuality of what he now had dared, he was ashamed to go further.
Gilian The DreamerNeil Munro
actuality
- true existence; reality
- (sometimes plural) a fact or condition that is real
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Word Origin and History for actuality
n.
late 14c., "power, efficacy," from Old French actualite and directly from Medieval Latin actualitatem (nominative actualitas), from Late Latin actualis (see actual). A Latin loan-translation of Greek energeia. Meaning "state of being real" is from 1670s (actualities "existing conditions" is from 1660s).
Mod. use of actuality in the sense of realism, contact with the contemporary, is due to Fr. actualité, from actuel, which does not mean actual, real, but now existing, up to date. [Weekley]
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