reality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state of being actual or real

   The reality of the situation slowly dawned on them.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   The real world.

   A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

4. 4
   noun

   A real entity, event, or other fact.

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

5. 5
   noun

   The entirety of all that is real.

   Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! Of REALITY! ITSELF!

6. 6
   noun

   Loyalty; devotion.

   To express our reality to the emperor.

7. 7
   noun

   Reality television.

   a foray into reality programming

8. 8
   noun

   the quality possessed by something that is real

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…