actuality

Noun

Meaning

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gospel real world being life certain fact real evidence knowledge axiom presence existence belief reality proof
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Antonyms

journal phantom chronicle belle fib mirage
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Hypernyms

being existence beingness face of the earth

Hyponyms

reality realism truth genuineness verity trueness

Phrases with the word

in actuality actuality essence

Derivatives

actualities

Examples

a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality Source: Internet

Anthropomorphic figures of speech, necessary in such languages, were eventually taken literally, leading to the idea that natural phenomena were in actuality conscious beings or gods. Source: Internet

Batman is, in actuality, Bruce Wayne ( Michael Keaton ), a billionaire industrialist who, as a child, witnessed his parents' murder at the hands of a young psychopathic mugger. Source: Internet

CalPERS calculates its own unfunded liability at $160 billion, using a 7 percent return on investment, when in actuality that figure likely exceeds $200 billion. Source: Internet

But that, in fact, the risen Christ was, in actuality, a divine spirit being, who made himself visible and invisible at will. Source: Internet

Aristotle Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) defined the soul, or Psūchê (ψυχή), as the " first actuality " of a naturally organized body, citation and argued against its separate existence from the physical body. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

actualist actualistic actualistically actuality essence actualizability actualizable