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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce

Meaning of "actuality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACTUALITY

actuality  [ˌæktʃʊˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACTUALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Actuality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACTUALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

actuality

Potentiality and actuality

In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are principles of a dichotomy which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics and De Anima. The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have. Aristotle did not consider all possibilities the same, and emphasized the importance of those that become real of their own accord when conditions are right and nothing stops them. Actuality, in contrast to potentiality, is the motion, change or activity that represents an exercise or fulfillment of a possibility, when a possibility becomes real in the fullest sense. These concepts, in modified forms, remained very important into the middle ages, influencing the development of medieval theology in several ways. Going further into modern times, while the understanding of nature implied by the dichotomy lost importance, the terminology has found new uses, developing indirectly from the old. This is most obvious in words like "energy" and "dynamic" but also in examples such as the biological concept of an "entelechy".

Definition of actuality in the English dictionary

The definition of actuality in the dictionary is true existence; reality. Other definition of actuality is a fact or condition that is real.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACTUALITY


accentuality
ækˌsɛntʃʊˈælɪtɪ
asexuality
ˌeɪsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
conceptuality
kənˌsɛptjʊˈælɪtɪ
effectuality
ɪˌfektʃʊˈælɪtɪ
eventuality
ɪˌvɛntʃʊˈælɪtɪ
heterosexuality
ˌhɛtərəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
homosexuality
ˌhəʊməʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
individuality
ˌɪndɪˌvɪdjʊˈælɪtɪ
ineffectuality
ˌɪnɪˌfɛktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
intellectuality
ˌɪntɪˌlɛktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
mutuality
ˌmjuːtjʊˈælɪtɪ
punctuality
ˌpʌŋktʃʊˈælɪtɪ
sensuality
ˌsɛnsjʊˈælɪtɪ
sexuality
ˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ
spirituality
ˌspɪrɪtjʊˈælɪtɪ
tactuality
ˌtæktjʊˈælɪtɪ
transsexuality
ˌtrænzˌseksjʊˈælɪtɪ
unpunctuality
ˌʌnpʌŋktjʊˈælɪtɪ
virtuality
ˌvɜːtʃʊˈælɪtɪ
visuality
ˌvɪzjʊˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACTUALITY

actual
actual bodily harm
actual sin
actual total loss
actualisation
actualise
actualist
actualities
actualization
actualize
actually
actuals
actuarial
actuarially
actuaries
actuary
actuate
actuation
actuator
acture

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACTUALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
speciality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of actuality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACTUALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «actuality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of actuality

Translation of «actuality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACTUALITY

Find out the translation of actuality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of actuality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «actuality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

现状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

actualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

actuality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वास्तविकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الواقع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Актуальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

realidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাস্তবতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

actualité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sebenarnya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wirklichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現実
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

실제로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Actuality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thực tế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்மையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वास्तविकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aktüalite
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attualità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

aktualności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

актуальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

actualitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επικαιρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aktualiteitsprogram
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aktualitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Aktualitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of actuality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTUALITY»

The term «actuality» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.521 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of actuality
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTUALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «actuality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «actuality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about actuality

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8 QUOTES WITH «ACTUALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word actuality.
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Tim Armstrong
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.
2
Gary Busey
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
3
William Ernest Henley
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
4
Edmund Husserl
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
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James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
6
Robert Musil
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
7
Charles Sanders Peirce
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
8
Francis Spufford
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACTUALITY»

Discover the use of actuality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to actuality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers.
Alexander R. Pruss, 2011
2
Actuality: Life in the Real World
Actuality is the science of our existence on a practical basis. After all, why shouldn't the Truth make practical sense to us? This collection of essays covers the basic elements of Actuality.
C. W. Adams, 2006
3
Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought
Makeham (Chinese, U. of Adelaide, South Australia) offers the first western study of the philosophy of Confucian Xu Gan (170- 217).
John Makeham, 1994
4
The Actuality of Adorno: Critical Essays on Adorno and the ...
Demonstrates the relevance and power of the social critic's work to the state of critical social theory today and discusses its significance for contemporary postmodern theory, with chapters on his aesthetic experimentalism and the ...
Max Pensky, 1997
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Aristotle's Theory of Actuality
This is an attack on Aristotle showing that his misplaced drive toward the consistent application of his actualistic ontology (denying the reality of all potential things) resulted in many of his major theses being essentially vacuous.
Z. Bechler, 1995
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Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's ...
Charlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle's metaphysics in a book devoted to the ontological distinction between potentiality and actuality.
Charlotte Witt, 2003
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Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-century ...
The book looks in new ways at how the patrons and planners sought to manipulate viewer response through the selective presentation or repackaging of mythic traditions.
David Castriota, 1992
8
Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta] 1-3: On the Essence and ...
First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931.
Martin Heidegger, 1995
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The Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality ...
In a reissue of a masterly examination of both the Christian doctrine of Atonement and the nature and working of theological language, Professor Gunton reassesses the doctrine and the language in which it is expressed in the light of modern ...
Colin E. Gunton, 2003
10
Particulars, Actuality, and Identity Over Time
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michael Tooley, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACTUALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term actuality is used in the context of the following news items.
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For the Pittsburgh Steelers, play-action passing isn't always the …
When the defense doesn't have to stop the run, faking the run won't cause much change in the defense, in all actuality it is nothing more than ... «Behind the Steel Curtain, Jul 15»
2
Have You Seen This Musical?
In actuality, many of the large-scale lost musicals in recent memory were producer-driven, meaning one or more people came up with an idea ... «TheaterMania.com, Jul 15»
3
Sunglass Lens Options
In actuality, they're a functional element of the sight-fishing objective. “When you apply that flat bill it makes a solid seal across the top of those ... «Scout, Jul 15»
4
Bruce Bisset: False hope won't help the fallen
In actuality, only about 10 per cent of people have a strong physical addiction to their drug of choice. But this does not mean that for the ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
5
Uprisings, but not Reawakenings
As activists of the African Renaissance, and given both our experience and actuality, we have to ask ourselves whether, in this regard, ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
6
Rat Race: How does the Cat Manipulate the Mouse?
In actuality: they love having the other around! What Others Are Reading. Why Chinese Men Don't Go Bald - You'll Never Believe This. «Empire State Tribune, Jul 15»
7
We gained a second. Did you feel it?
Like, all this time, people who claim they can look at the sun and tell what time it is, when in actuality, it's the moon that is controlling the time. «Staunton News Leader, Jul 15»
8
Column: In defense of the Pacheco Law
... but McAnneny's claims here challenge that: The $2.2 billion in available MBTA funds she speaks of was, in actuality, authorization — not real, ... «The Salem News, Jul 15»
9
Inner Conflict Gives Way to Antagonism
The myth, the ideal, is unreal; it is a self-projected escape, it has no actuality. The actual is what you are. What you are is much more important ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
10
To Your Health: Decision to Donate Cord Blood Can Help Save Lives
Certainly this may seem like a significant decision to make, but in all actuality, it is quite a simple process. You may wonder if donating cord ... «State College News, Jul 15»

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