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virtuality

noun

Etymology

From virtual + -ity.

  1. derived from virtuel
  2. borrowed from virtuel
  3. derived from *wiHrós✻ — “man”
  4. derived from virtūs — “goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”
  5. derived from virtuālis — “of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”
  6. derived from vertüal
  7. inherited from vertual
  8. suffixed as virtuality — “virtual + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being virtual

    The quality of being virtual; virtualness.

    • Libraries, whose lifeblood is information, were always likely to be among the first to confront the challenge and opportunity of virtuality

  2. A virtual reality environment.

    • ... uses of direct-manipulation techniques, the creation of virtualities, the use of agents, and the integration of multiple modalities in representations

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for virtuality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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