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factual

adj
/ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/US/ˈfæk.(t)ʃ(ʊ)əl/UK/ˈfɛk.(t)ʃ(ʉː)əl/

Etymology

From fact + -ual, modeled after, and by analogy with, actual.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factual — “fact + ual”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.

    • Thus, the approach has more flexibility than Lamarque and Olsen's approach; in particular, it is open to the possibility that false factual claims do affect our understanding of, and our evaluation of, fictional narratives.

  2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality.

    • A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.
    • He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."

  3. Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.

    • The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.

The neighborhood

Derived

antifactual, contrafactual, counterfactual, extra-factual, factualism, factualist, factuality, factualize, factually, factualness, factual relativism, multifactual, nonfactual, non-factual, postfactual, post-factual, prefactual, semifactual, unfactual

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at factual

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