Word Meanings - REALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Loyalty; devotion. To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when

Additional info about word: REALITY

Loyalty; devotion. To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. Addison. 2. That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea. And to realities yield all her shows. Milton. My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me. Beattie. 3. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REALITY)

• Fact
• Truth
• deed
• occurrence
• certainty
• circumstance
• event
• reality
• Verity
• actuality
• in existence

Related words: (words related to REALITY)

• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• VERITY
  1. The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality. "The verity of certain words." Shak. It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while
• EVENTFUL
  Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
• EVENTIDE
  The time of evening; evening. Spenser.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• EVENTRATION
  A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• EVENTLESS
  Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
• REALITY
  Loyalty; devotion. To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• EVENTUALLY
  In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
• TRUTHFUL
  Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.
• TRUTHNESS
  Truth. Marston.
• EVENTUALITY
  Disposition to take cognizance of events. (more info) 1. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
• TRUTH
  1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows,
• CIRCUMSTANCE
  Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. Not a circumstance, of no account. -- Under the circumstances, taking
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• SEVENTIETH
  1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age. 2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.