actuality
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actualities
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actualities
Britannica Dictionary definition of ACTUALITY
1
[noncount]
:
the quality or state of being actual or real
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It was hard to accept the actuality [=reality] of the disease.
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[count]
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something that is actual or real
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the actualities [=realities] of war
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The actuality was quite different from the theory.
in actuality
:
in truth
— used to stress that something is true when it is different from what was believed or expected
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He gave me what turned out to be, in actuality [=in reality, in fact], only a copy of the original.
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I thought they just arrived, but in actuality they'd been here for an hour.
