actuality
pronunciation
How to pronounce actuality in British English:
UK [ˌæktʃuˈæləti]
How to pronounce actuality in American English:
US [ˌæktʃuˈælɪti]
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- Noun:
- the state of actually existing objectively
Word Origin
- actuality (n.)
- late 14c., "power, efficacy," from Old French actualite and directly from Medieval Latin actualitatem (nominative actualitas), from Late Latin actualis (see actual). A Latin loan-translation of Greek energeia. Meaning "state of being real" is from 1670s (actualities "existing conditions" is from 1660s). Mod. use of actuality in the sense of realism, contact with the contemporary, is due to Fr. actualité, from actuel, which does not mean actual, real, but now existing, up to date. [Weekley]
Example
- 1. But the other aspect of actuality is its essentiality .
- 2. Such in general is the nature of the process of actuality .
- 3. In actuality , color is simply an indication of the breed of hen .
- 4. But it is perception , not actuality , that drives prices in financial markets .
- 5. At first , this something else is only a possibility : but the form of possibility is soon suspended and translated into actuality .