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reality

noun
/ɹiːˈælɪti/UK/ɹiˈæləti/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor. French réalitéder. English reality From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. 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. First attested in c. 1540.

  1. derived from reālis
  2. derived from reālitās
  3. derived from realité
  4. derived from réalité

Definitions

  1. The state of being actual or real

    The state of being actual or real; realness.

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

  2. The real world.

    • A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
    • Does this mean that reality has caught up with science fiction?

  3. A real entity, event, or other fact.

    • The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
    • There are several new realities that this team now needs to accept: our old project is dead, and our new project is now the priority.
    • And to realities yield all her shows.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The entirety of all that is real.

    2. An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

    3. Loyalty

      Loyalty; devotion.

      • To express our reality to the emperor.

    4. Realty

      Realty; real estate.

    5. Reality television.

      • a foray into reality programming

    6. A female given name from English.

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Derived

alternate reality game, antireality, bite of the reality sandwich, break reality, celebreality, cyberreality, detached from reality, disreality, divorced from reality, dramality, extended reality, hyperreality, in reality, irreality, macroreality, mugged by reality, neoreality, new reality, nonreality, online reality game, pseudoreality, reality-based, reality bender, reality challenged, reality check, reality distortion field, reality gap, reality mining, reality pornography, reality principle, reality shifter, reality shifting, reality show, reality television, reality testing, reality therapy, reality TV, reality warper, reality warping, semireality · +4 more

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at reality

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