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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACTUAL'ITY, n. Reality.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1618 1. the quality or state of being actual 2. something that is actual ; fact, reality <possible risks which have been seized upon as actualities — T. S. Eliot>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 reality; what is the case. 2 (in pl.) existing conditions. Etymology: ME f. OF actualité entity or med.L actualitas (as ACTUAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Actuality Ac`tu*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Actualities. The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(actualities) 1. You can use in actuality to emphasize that what you are saying is true, when it contradicts or contrasts with what you have previously said. In actuality, Teddie did not have a disorder but merely a difficult temperament... = in reality, actually PHRASE: PHR with cl [emphasis] 2. Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined. It exists in dreams rather than actuality. = reality

Moby Thesaurus

accomplished fact, achievement, actualization, attainment, authenticity, basis, being, confirmability, demonstratability, doubtlessness, embodiment, essence, eternal verities, externalization, fact, factuality, fait accompli, good sooth, grim reality, historical truth, historicity, incarnation, incontestability, incontrovertibility, indisputability, indubitability, indubitableness, irrefragability, irrefutability, materialization, not a dream, objective existence, provability, questionlessness, reality, sooth, substance, the true, trueness, truth, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unconfutability, undeniability, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, unimpeachability, unquestionability, unrefutability, veracity, verifiability, verity, very truth