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actuality

noun
/ˌækt͡ʃuˈælɪti/

Etymology

From actual + -ity. * (television): Influenced by French actualité.

  1. derived from actualité

Definitions

  1. The state of existing

    The state of existing; existence.

  2. An instance or quality of being actual or factual

    An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.

  3. Live reporting on current affairs.

    • A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.
    • This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A short early motion picture.

      • By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at actuality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at actuality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at actuality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA