facticity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of facticity
1940–45; fact + -icity ( -ic + -ity ), perhaps after authenticity
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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
So, willy-nilly, a little fragment of problematic facticity was let loose in the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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