ACTUALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of actually existing objectively

Example:

a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("actuality" is a kind of...):

Attribute:

actual; existent (presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "actuality"):

entelechy ((Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality)

genuineness (the state of being genuine)

realism; reality; realness (the state of being actual or real)

reality (the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be)

the true; trueness; truth; verity (conformity to reality or actuality)

Derivation:

actual (presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible)

actual (being or existing at the present moment)

actual (taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated)

actual (existing in act or fact)