reality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The way things really are, as opposed to how they are imagined or hoped to be.

   The reality of the situation slowly dawned on them.

2. 2
   noun

   The real world and everything that actually exists in it.

   He needs to come back to reality and accept the facts.

3. 3
   noun

   A fact or thing that is real and true.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A type of television showing real people in unscripted situations.

   She got famous through a reality TV show.

Common collocations

• in reality Preposition + noun
• experiential reality Adjective + noun
• transcendent reality Adjective + noun

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…

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