English > actuality: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | The state of actually existing objectively. |
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| Example | "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality" |
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| Attributes | actual, existent | presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible |
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| Narrower | entelechy | (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized / realized |
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| genuineness | The state of being genuine / genuine / genuine |
| reality, realness, realism | The state of being actual or real |
| reality | The state of the world as it really / really is rather than as you might want it to be |
| truth, the true, verity, trueness | conformity to reality or actuality |
| Broader | being, beingness, existence, face of the earth | The state or fact of existing |
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| Spanish | realidad |
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| Catalan | actualitat, realitat |
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| Adjectives | actual | presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible |
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| actual | being or existing at the present moment |
| actual | taking place in reality |
| actual | existing in act or fact |