facticity

American

[fak-tis-i-tee] / fækˈtɪs ɪ ti /

noun

the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.

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

The American legal system, indeed any legal system, is a search for truth, facticity, conclusion, and resolution.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

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

It was, for them, in the words of Daryn Lehoux, an example of ‘unproblematic facticity’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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