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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•al•i•ty /riˈælɪti/USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties. - [uncountable] the state or quality of being real.
- a real thing or fact:[countable]had to face some harsh realities about ourselves.
- real things, facts, or events thought of as a whole:[uncountable]reading fantasy books to escape from reality.
Idioms- Idioms in reality, in fact or truth;
actually.
See -real-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•al•i•ty (rē al′i tē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties for 3, 5–7.- the state or quality of being real.
- resemblance to what is real.
- a real thing or fact.
- real things, facts, or events taken as a whole;
state of affairs:the reality of the business world; vacationing to escape reality. - Philosophy
- something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
- something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive.
- something that is real.
- something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent.
- in reality, in fact or truth;
actually:brave in appearance, but in reality a coward.
- Medieval Latin reālitās. See real1, -ity
- 1540–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: reality /rɪˈælɪtɪ/ n ( pl -ties)- the state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be
- something that is real
- the state of being real
- that which exists, independent of human awareness
- the totality of facts as they are independent of human awareness of them
- in reality ⇒ actually; in fact
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