facticity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of facticity
1940–45; fact + -icity ( -ic + -ity ), perhaps after authenticity
Example Sentences
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Perhaps most significantly, "Midas Man" serves as a cautionary tale of sorts about the urgent need for facticity in contemporary cinema.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025
Because no institution of facticity can contain them.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
Absurdity isn’t a good guide to the facticity of claims about our government and leaders, either.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2018
What many of these essay writers focus explicitly on are questions of truth and facticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
There are cases of ‘problematic facticity’ and others of ‘unproblematic facticity’, and the language of the fact seems to be employed first of all to deal with cases of problematic facticity.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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