facticity

[fak-tis-i-tee]

noun

1. the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.

Word History and Origins

Origin of facticity¹

1940–45; fact + -icity ( -ic + -ity ), perhaps after authenticity

Example Sentences

Perhaps most significantly, "Midas Man" serves as a cautionary tale of sorts about the urgent need for facticity in contemporary cinema.

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

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She said Psaki had a “facticity to her work that is characteristic of good press secretaries and it presupposes confidence. It presupposes access to the president. It presupposes an understanding of what the administration’s position is that proves to be true.”

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Because no institution of facticity can contain them.

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So these little nuggets of problematic facticity—the inability of garlic to disempower a magnet or of goat’s blood to re-empower it—found their way into della Porta’s text.

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