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Definition: Actuality |
ActualityNoun1. The state of actually existing objectively: "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "actuality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Existence | Reality, actuality; positiveness; Adjective: fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Actuality |
| English words defined with "actuality": Actualities, Actualness, as a matter of fact ♦ effectively, Entelechy, existent, existing ♦ false ♦ in effect, in fact, in point of fact ♦ nonexistent ♦ real ♦ the true, truth ♦ verity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "actuality": Novel. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Actuality Specials (1962) | |
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| "Isaiah's gift" by Keely Singer Commentary: "The gift, in all actuality, is the rock wired in the middle. ." |
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Aristotle | The actuality of thought is life. |
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Health | In actuality, stroke strikes all age groups, from fetuses still in the womb to centenarians. (references) | |
Business | Main competitive factors are quality, design, customer service, actuality, and price. (references) | |
The news for solar heating production was less upbeat, with an increase of only 8% in 1998 and an anticipated 9% increase in 1999. Because of the anticipated move of solar electric/PV being incorporated into the last NFFO tranche (December 1998), the PV firms increased production by 25% in 1998 and expect a 20% increase in 1999. In actuality, PV was not included in the fifth and last round of NFFO. In addition, exports of PV equipment are increasing for UK companies as the markets in Southern Europe, Africa, Japan and the U.S. develop. (references) | ||
Economic History | China | The central and local Chinese governments have also strongly promoted science parks which, in actuality, often just serve as low-tech assembly centers. (references) |
Trade | Burma | Despite sometimes onerous trade regulations, in actuality there is a tremendous amount of smuggling in and out of Burma, particularly across the long and often remote borders. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes -- some of which have a large sale. |
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| "Actuality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Actuality" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 152 | 25,494 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "actuality": actuality shooting ♦ in actuality. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "actuality": pseudo-actuality. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
actuality | 47 |
actuality production | 4 |
actuality system | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "actuality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | werklikheid. (various references) | |
Albanian | realitet (case, fact, matter of fact, outness, real, reality, substantiality), gjë reale. (various references) | |
Arabic | حقيقة (certainty, fact, genuineness, matter of fact, reality, sooth, truth, veracity, verity), الفعلية كون الشئ فعليا (reality). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | реалност (positive, reality, substance, tangibility), реално съществуване (entity), действителност (deed, fact, positive, real, reality, sooth, truth). (various references) | |
Chinese | 現實 (actual, real, reality), 事实 (Actualities, fact, Factual). (various references) | |
Czech | skuteènost (fact, life, matter of fact, reality, Verity). (various references) | |
Dutch | wezenlýkheid, wezenheid (essence, gist), werkelýkheid, realiteit (reality). (various references) | |
French | réalité. (various references) | |
German | Wirklichkeit (objectivity, reality, substantiality, substantiveness, truth), Realität (reality), Aktualität (relevance, relevancy, topicality). (various references) | |
Greek | ρεαλισμόσ (pragmatism, realism), πραγματικότητα (actualness, reality, substance, veritableness), επικαιρότητα (opportuneness, seasonableness, timeliness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מציאות (essence, existence, reality, sooth), עכשויות (present), ענינים שוטפים, ענינות (matter of course approach). (various references) | |
Hungarian | realitás (reality). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keadaan sesungguhnya. (various references) | |
Italian | realtà (fact, objectivity, reality). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アクチニウム系列 (acrylic, Actinides, actinium series, activation, active, active defense, active homing, active solar house, active sonar, active sportswear, activity, actress, actual, actual time, orgasm). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アクチュアリティー . (various references) | |
Korean | 현실 (Actualities, Realities, reality). (various references) | |
Manx | rieughid (authenticity, realism, reality), jerriuid (truth), firrinys (authenticity, devotion, devoutness, faithfulness, fidelity, maxim, sincerity, truth, unaffectedness, veracity). (various references) | |
Papiamen | realitad. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actualityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | realidade (deed, fact, real, reality, substantiality, tangibility, truth, verity). (various references) | |
Russian | действительность (actualities, matter of fact, real, real life, reality). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aktuelnost, stvarnost (reality, verity). (various references) | |
Spanish | realidad (fact, objectivity, reality). (various references) | |
Swedish | verklighet (entity, reality, truth), realitet (fact, reality). (various references) | |
Turkish | aktüalite (current events, topicality), gerçeklik (authenticity, effect, genuineness, literality, reality, the real, trueness, truth, veracity, Verity), güncellik (timeliness, topicality, up-to-dateness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | справжні умови, реальність (entity, positive, reality, substantiality, tangibility, tangible), реалізм (realism), дійсність (deed, real, reality). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thực tế (actual, business-like, down-to-earth, reality). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "actuality": factuality. (additional references) | |
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"Actuality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: actualist, actuallity, aktuality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "actuality" (pronounced a'kkhuwa"lutē) |
| 8 | -kh u w a" l u t ē | mutuality, sensuality, spirituality. |
| 7 | -u w a" l u t ē | heterosexuality, homosexuality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, legality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | acceptability, accessibility, ability, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, irresponsibility, irritability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, laity, laxity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: cattail, cattily, tacitly, tactual. | |
-3 letters: actual, acuity, tautly, yautia. | |
-4 letters: aliya, atilt, attic, aulic, catty, culti, cutty, laity, lytic, lytta, tacit, tical. | |
-5 letters: acta, acyl, alit, caul, city, clay, clit, cult, lacy, laic, lati, litu, tact, tail, tala, talc, tali, taut, tilt, yuca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-t-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: factuality. | |
+3 letters: articulately, articulatory, autistically. | |
+4 letters: authentically, autocatalysis, autocatalytic, automatically, connaturality, facultatively, particularity, traumatically. | |
+5 letters: accountability, altruistically, autocratically, inarticulately, rectangularity, tautologically, unattractively. | |
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