in reality

Speech parts

1. in reality - Adverb

2. in reality - Phrase

Meaning

used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly

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Synonyms

actually really in practice verily actual indeed truly de facto practically honestly frankly authentically forsooth essentially genuinely
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Antonyms

theoretically hypothetically apparently ostensibly ideally abstractly
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Examples

We must understand that the human person in reality does not die. Death is simply a transfer from one life to the other. Paisios of Mount Athos

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. Friedrich Nietzsche

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. Franz Schubert

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Max Beerbohm

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr.

Differing in words, not in reality. Latin Proverb

Words in the phrase

in reality

Close letter words and terms

in ready money In real life in real time in reason in recent days in recent memory