Actuality
noun
The state of things as they are, or as they happen.
In actuality, he was never in danger.
Often appears as...
- in actuality
- become an actuality
noun
Practical existence, especially in contrast to an idealized or theoretical scenario.
The actuality of the situation was far removed from our previous assumptions.
Often appears as...
- the harsh actuality
- actuality versus theory
noun
A real event, situation, person or thing.
They had to face the actuality of their circumstances.
Often appears as...
- face the actuality
- actuality of circumstances
noun
The state of things as they are, or as they happen.
In actuality, he was never in danger.
Often appears as...
- in actuality
- become an actuality
noun
Practical existence, especially in contrast to an idealized or theoretical scenario.
The actuality of the situation was far removed from our previous assumptions.
Often appears as...
- the harsh actuality
- actuality versus theory
noun
A real event, situation, person or thing.
They had to face the actuality of their circumstances.
Often appears as...
- face the actuality
- actuality of circumstances
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Contrary Expectations
Use 'actuality' to express a reality that contradicts prior beliefs or expectations.
Everyone thought he was late, but in actuality, he arrived early.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarifying Truth
'Actuality' often introduces the truth when clarifying a situation or correcting a misconception.
She seemed unfriendly, but in actuality, she was just shy.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'actuality' carries a neutral tone and is neither formal nor informal.
The predictions were optimistic, but the actuality was less so.
Pro Tip 1/3Contrary Expectations
Use 'actuality' to express a reality that contradicts prior beliefs or expectations.
Everyone thought he was late, but in actuality, he arrived early.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarifying Truth
'Actuality' often introduces the truth when clarifying a situation or correcting a misconception.
She seemed unfriendly, but in actuality, she was just shy.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'actuality' carries a neutral tone and is neither formal nor informal.
The predictions were optimistic, but the actuality was less so.
Pro Tip 1/3Contrary Expectations
Use 'actuality' to express a reality that contradicts prior beliefs or expectations.
Everyone thought he was late, but in actuality, he arrived early.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarifying Truth
'Actuality' often introduces the truth when clarifying a situation or correcting a misconception.
She seemed unfriendly, but in actuality, she was just shy.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Tone
The word 'actuality' carries a neutral tone and is neither formal nor informal.
The predictions were optimistic, but the actuality was less so.
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Tavi Gevinson: A teen...
But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated,
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A teen just trying to...
who happened to be female they're completely flat and they're basically cardboard characters the problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple when in actuality women are
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
for over six years now, a lot of my family and friends think that what I do looks like this. But in all actuality, what I do looks like this. Now, we can all do something. I'm not saying we should all buy a plane ticket and go to Afghanistan,
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Sunlight is way older...
In actuality, a photon's energy, which changes over the course of its journey, determines how likely it is to interact with a proton. On the density question, our models show that the Sun has a hot core, where the fusion reactions occur.
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Joshua Prince-Ramus:...
into the interior of the auditorium. And here is the fruition of that in actuality. These are the two large pivoting doors that allow people to move directly from the outside, in or from the inside, out, performers or audience alike.
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The Furnace Bots PIPE Think...
So in this scenario, you’re guaranteed to find the parent in one or two moves. In actuality, there are many furnace-bots, and you don’t know how many generations there are nor what the family tree looks like. But you don’t need to,
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How jails extort the...
But in actuality, I find talking about jailing much less depressing than the alternative, because I think if we don't talk about these issues and collectively change how we think about jailing, at the end of all of our lives,
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Dean Potter BASE Jumps...
together there's also oh we could die together what happens when dogs fly it sure wasn't what I thought it was going to be what was the reality of it that's what life is there's the fantasy there's the actuality
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
What else does it not yet realize? Well, I mean, I don't think we're anywhere near there yet. I mean, we're still in a place in which we're far, far behind what looks like the real world in actuality.
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Intimate photos of a...
about what we crave and the actuality of our situation. Before shooting this series, I was also in love with two different people who knew about each other, being the object over which they fought.
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Tavi Gevinson: A teen...
But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated,
Video examples
A teen just trying to...
who happened to be female they're completely flat and they're basically cardboard characters the problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple when in actuality women are
Video examples
Kimberley Motley: How I...
for over six years now, a lot of my family and friends think that what I do looks like this. But in all actuality, what I do looks like this. Now, we can all do something. I'm not saying we should all buy a plane ticket and go to Afghanistan,
Video examples
Sunlight is way older...
In actuality, a photon's energy, which changes over the course of its journey, determines how likely it is to interact with a proton. On the density question, our models show that the Sun has a hot core, where the fusion reactions occur.
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Joshua Prince-Ramus:...
into the interior of the auditorium. And here is the fruition of that in actuality. These are the two large pivoting doors that allow people to move directly from the outside, in or from the inside, out, performers or audience alike.
Video examples
The Furnace Bots PIPE Think...
So in this scenario, you’re guaranteed to find the parent in one or two moves. In actuality, there are many furnace-bots, and you don’t know how many generations there are nor what the family tree looks like. But you don’t need to,
Video examples
How jails extort the...
But in actuality, I find talking about jailing much less depressing than the alternative, because I think if we don't talk about these issues and collectively change how we think about jailing, at the end of all of our lives,
Video examples
Dean Potter BASE Jumps...
together there's also oh we could die together what happens when dogs fly it sure wasn't what I thought it was going to be what was the reality of it that's what life is there's the fantasy there's the actuality
Video examples
Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
What else does it not yet realize? Well, I mean, I don't think we're anywhere near there yet. I mean, we're still in a place in which we're far, far behind what looks like the real world in actuality.
Video examples
Intimate photos of a...
about what we crave and the actuality of our situation. Before shooting this series, I was also in love with two different people who knew about each other, being the object over which they fought.
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Amelia Earhart
American Aviator
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
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John Hillcoat
Australian Director
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
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Emma Ishta
Australian Model
Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.
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Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
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Edmund Husserl
German Philosopher
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Kristin Gore
American Author
In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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James Joyce
Irish Novelist
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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Brendon Burchard
Author
People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
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Amelia Earhart
American Aviator
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
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John Hillcoat
Australian Director
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
Quote examples
Emma Ishta
Australian Model
Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.
Quote examples
Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
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Edmund Husserl
German Philosopher
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Kristin Gore
American Author
In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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James Joyce
Irish Novelist
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Quote examples
Brendon Burchard
Author
People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
Example 1 of 10
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