actuality
noun/ˌæktʃuˈæləti/
/ˌæktʃuˈæləti/
(plural actualities)
(formal)- [uncountable] the state of something existing in reality
- in actuality The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in photographs.
- [countable, usually plural] things that exist synonym fact, reality
- the grim actualities of prison life
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘activity’): from Old French actualite or medieval Latin actualitas, from actualis ‘active, practical’, from actus ‘event, thing done’, act- ‘done’, from the verb agere, reinforced by the French noun acte.
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