reality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
law
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin reālis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Medieval Latin reālitāslbor.
French réalitéder.
English reality
From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.
Base: real
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: realities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being actual or real; realness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real.
gloss: The real world.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
Does this mean that reality has caught up with science fiction?
gloss: A real entity, event, or other fact.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
There are several new realities that this team now needs to accept: our old project is dead, and our new project is now the priority.
And to realities yield all her shows.
My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
A dream, of simple fantasy / That I, wished was reality / That you'd, come knocking at my door / And we'd, relive this dream once more
Recent historical studies indicate that we must continue to challenge the notion that there is an unproblematic story of queer liberation. For example, how do local histories account for realities such as the increased racial segregation of the New York bar scene after Stonewall?
Given the economic realities of contemporary Poland, a requirement to provide information on movable assets which exceed PLN 10,000 in value cannot be held to be excessive.
Exploring alternative realities isn't just a game for boys. In 1666, Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, published a utopian fantasy of compelling strangeness.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today[…].
But part of me was still glad to see this undoubtedly superficial take. As a society, we barely discuss the realities and implications of singledom. In pop culture singledom is almost invariably represented as an easily fixed unhappy state, a step along the way to getting happily hitched.
gloss: The entirety of all that is real.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! Of REALITY! ITSELF!
gloss: An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Loyalty; devotion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: To express our reality to the emperor.
gloss: Realty; real estate.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Reality television.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
usually
examples: a foray into reality programming
Synonyms: truth
actuality
Antonyms: fantasy
Related words: realia
realism
realization
realize
realty
Derived words: alternate reality game
antireality
bite of the reality sandwich
break reality
celebreality
cyberreality
detached from reality
disreality
divorced from reality
dramality
extended reality
hyperreality
in reality
irreality
macroreality
mugged by reality
neoreality
new reality
nonreality
online reality game
pseudoreality
reality-based
reality bender
reality challenged
reality check
reality distortion field
reality gap
reality mining
reality pornography
reality principle
reality shifter
reality shifting
reality show
reality television
reality testing
reality therapy
reality TV
reality warper
reality warping
semireality
superreality
telereality
unreality
wikiality
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