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noun

Reality n. (pl. realities)

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. "A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning."

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea. "And to realities yield all her shows." "My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me."

Loyalty; devotion. (Obs.) "To express our reality to the emperor."

(Law) See 2d Realty, 2.

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Etymology of 'Reality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reality" Quotes from Famous Books

... sight of land, at sea, changes everything," I went on. "It always affects me as waking up from a dream. It's a return to reality." ...

— The Patagonia • Henry James

... profoundly pondered, nor too carefully discussed; and at the urgent request of not a few of our better readers, we purpose examining it anew in a course of occasional articles, convinced that its crisis has at length come, just as the crisis of the Church question had in reality come when the late Dr. M'Crie published his extraordinary pamphlet;{6} and that it must depend on the part now taken by the Free Church in this matter, whether some ten years hence she is to posses any share, even the slightest, in the education of the country. We ask our readers severely ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... of Cinderella paled to the complexion of a sordidly realistic narrative of commonplaces; contemplating them, Sally, for the sake of her self-conceit, felt constrained to adopt an aloof, superior, sceptical pose. Conceding freely the incredible reality of this phase of her history, she none the less contended that in it no more true permanence ...

— Nobody • Louis Joseph Vance

... matter of seconds, had become spoil of the sea, and her crew and passengers had vanished forever from the sight of men. Yet Prester Kleig lived on, knew that he lived on, and that there was an element, too strong to be disbelieved, of reality in ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

... God was all Papa, Papa was not all God. He was only a bit of him. He meant that if God was the only reality, Papa wouldn't ...

— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

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