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reality

  • noun
  • /ɹiːˈælɪti/

The state of being actual or real; realness.

Example

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

Other meanings

  1. The real world.

  2. A real entity, event or other fact.

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

Synonyms

  • truth
  • realism

Antonyms

  • fantasy

Related words

  • antireality
  • celebreality
  • cyberreality
  • dramality
  • hyperreality
  • irreality
  • macroreality
  • neoreality
  • nonreality
  • pseudoreality
  • semireality
  • superreality

Example sentences

  • “The game offered a brief escape from reality.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

  • “There's no such thing as reality.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "reālis" (real).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “reality” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.