reality

Speech parts

1. reality - Noun

2. Reality - Proper noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

Loyalty; devotion.

See 2d Realty, 2.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

world realism actuality truth realness gospel real world being certain real true fact axiom actually situation

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Antonyms

fantasy unreality revenant bee simile imago

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Hypernyms

experience actuality materiality corporeality corporality physicalness

Hyponyms

real world fact real life historicalness

Related terms

realty realize realism realization realia

Phrases with the word

in reality artificial reality objective reality online reality game actual reality corporeal reality

Derivatives

realities

Anagrams

irately tearily

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Laozi

Differing in words, not in reality. Latin Proverb

Things rumoured lessen in importance as they assume reality. Latin Proverb

Dreams are what you hope for; reality is what you plan for. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

realistically realisticity realisticness reality bender reality challenged reality check