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ACTUALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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...):
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
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)
