reality

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EtymologyEdit

[circa 1540] From French réalité ‎(“quality of being real”), Middle French realité ‎(“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin realitas, from Late Latin realis ‎(“real”). Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /riˈæləti/, [riˈæləɾi]

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

NounEdit

reality ‎(usually uncountable, plural realities)

1. The state of being actual or real.

   The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.‎

   • Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

     A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

   • 1915, George A. Birmingham, “chapter I”, in Gossamer (Project Gutenberg; EBook #24394), London: Methuen & Co., published 8 January 2013 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 558189256:

     As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

2. A real entity, event or other fact.

   The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.‎

   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     And to realities yield all her shows.

   • James Beattie (1735-1803)

     My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.

3. The entirety of all that is real.
4. An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
5. (obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
   • Thomas Fuller (1606-1661)

     To express our reality to the emperor.

6. (law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.

SynonymsEdit

• actuality
• real world

Derived termsEdit

• reality check
• reality principle
• reality show

• reality television
• virtual reality

Related termsEdit

• realia
• realism

• realize
• realty

TranslationsEdit

state of being actual or real

• Bashkir: ғәмәл ‎(ğämäl), ысынбарлыҡ ‎(ïsïnbarlïq)
• Bulgarian: действи́телност (bg) f ‎(dejstvítelnost), реа́лност (bg) f ‎(reálnost)
• Catalan: realitat (ca) f
• Czech: skutečnost (cs) f
• Danish: virkelighed (da) c
• Dutch: werkelijkheid (nl) f, realiteit (nl) f
• Faroese: veruleiki m
• Finnish: olemassaolo
• French: réalité (fr) f
• German: Wirklichkeit (de) f
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) f ‎(pragmatikótita)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: सच्चाई (hi) f ‎(saccāī)
• Hungarian: valóság (hu)
• Irish: nithiúlacht f, réadúlacht f
• Italian: realtà (it) f
• Japanese: 実在 (ja) ‎(じつざい, jitsuzai)
• Khmer: ការពិត ‎(kaa pɨt)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: natura, eventus, veritas (la)
• Latvian: reālums m, reālība f, realitāte f
• Luxembourgish: Realitéit f
• Macedonian: реалност f ‎(realnost)
• Polish: rzeczywistość (pl) f
• Portuguese: realidade (pt) f
• Romanian: realitate (ro) f
• Russian: реа́льность (ru) f ‎(reálʹnostʹ), действи́тельность (ru) f ‎(dejstvítelʹnostʹ), веще́ственность (ru) f ‎(veščéstvennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стварност f, реалност f, јава f

  Roman: stvarnost (sh) f, realnost (sh) f, java (sh) f

• Slovene: resničnost f
• Spanish: realidad (es) f
• Swedish: verklighet (sv) c, realism (sv) c
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gerçek (tr), hakikat (tr)
• West Frisian: wierheid c

a real entity, event etc.

• Catalan: realitat (ca) f
• Danish: realitet c
• Dutch: feitelijkheid f, realiteit (nl) f (indefinite article only)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) f ‎(pragmatikótita)
• Khmer: ការពិត ‎(kaa pɨt)
• Malay: kenyataan, hakikat, realitet, realiti

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: realitet m

  Nynorsk: realitet m

• Polish: rzeczywistość (pl) f
• Portuguese: realidade (pt) f
• Romanian: realitate (ro) f
• Swedish: realitet (sv) c

entirety of all that is real

• Afrikaans: realiteit
• Bashkir: ысынбарлыҡ ‎(ïsïnbarlïq)
• Catalan: realitat (ca) f
• Czech: skutečnost (cs) f
• Dutch: de werkelijkheid (nl) f, de realiteit (nl) f (definite article only)
• Esperanto: realaĵo
• Finnish: todellisuus (fi)
• French: réalité (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) f ‎(pragmatikótita)
• Japanese: 現実 (ja) ‎(げんじつ, genjitsu)

• Latvian: īstenība f, realitāte f, reālība
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: virkelighet (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: røynd (nn) f, røyndom m, verkelegheit (nn) f

• Polish: rzeczywistość (pl) f
• Portuguese: realidade (pt) f
• Russian: реа́льность (ru) f ‎(reálʹnostʹ), действи́тельность (ru) f ‎(dejstvítelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: realidad (es) f
• Swedish: verklighet (sv) c
• Yiddish: וואָר f ‎(vor)

an individual observer's subjective perception

• Afrikaans: realiteit
• Bashkir: ысынбарлыҡ ‎(ïsïnbarlïq)
• Catalan: realitat (ca) f
• Dutch: werkelijkheid (nl) f, realiteit (nl) f (indefinite article only)
• Finnish: todellisuus (fi)
• German: Realität (de) f
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) f ‎(pragmatikótita)

• Japanese: 現実 (ja) ‎(げんじつ, genjitsu)
• Latvian: realitāte f
• Portuguese: realidade (pt) f
• Romanian: realitate (ro) f
• Russian: реа́льность (ru) f ‎(reálʹnostʹ), действи́тельность (ru) f ‎(dejstvítelʹnostʹ)
• Swedish: verklighet (sv) c
• Turkish: realite (tr)

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} реалност ‎(realnost)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} realaĵo
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} reaalsus, ^{(please verify)} tegelikkus
• French: ^{(please verify)} réalité (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Wirklichkeit f, ^{(please verify)} Realität f
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מדומה
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} valóság

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} realtà (it)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} realitas f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} стварност f, ^{(please verify)} реалност f, ^{(please verify)} јава f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} stvarnost (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} realnost (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} java (sh) f

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} resničnost f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} realidad (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} verklighet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} реальність ‎(realʹnistʹ)

CollocationsEdit

• harsh collocates with reality - The harsh realities of life.

AnagramsEdit

• irately

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NounEdit

reality m ‎(plural realities or realitys)

1. (television) reality show

SynonymsEdit

• reality show