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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
E. L. Doctorow

Meaning of "factuality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FACTUALITY

factuality  [ˌfæktʃʊˈælətɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FACTUALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Factuality 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 FACTUALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fact

A fact is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable experiments.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FACTUALITY


ambisexuality
ˌæmbɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
antisexuality
ˌæntɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
ephemerality
ɪˌfemərˈælətɪ
ethereality
ɪˌθɪərɪˈælətɪ
hypersexuality
ˌhaɪpəˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
intersexuality
ˌɪntəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
notionality
ˌnəʊʃənˈælətɪ
nuptiality
ˌnʌpʃɪˈælətɪ
officiality
əˌfɪʃɪˈælətɪ
optionality
ˌɒpʃəˈnælətɪ
osmolality
ˌɒzməʊˈlælətɪ
pansexuality
pænˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
parasexuality
pærəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
psychosexuality
ˌsaɪkəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
seasonality
ˌsiːzənælətɪ
subspeciality
ˌsʌbspɛʃɪˈælətɪ
superficiality
ˌsuːpəfɪʃɪˈælətɪ
supersexuality
ˌsuːpərˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
triaxiality
traɪˌæksɪˈælətɪ
unisexuality
ˌjuːnɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FACTUALITY

factory hand
factory inspector
factory outlet
factory ship
factory work
factory worker
factory-fresh
factory-like
factotum
facts and figures
facts of life
factsheet
factual
factualism
factualist
factualistic
factually
factualness
factum
facture

WORDS THAT END LIKE FACTUALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of factuality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «factuality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FACTUALITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

真实性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

facticidad
570 millions of speakers

English

factuality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

factuality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

factuality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фактичность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

factualidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

factuality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

factualité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fakulti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Faktizität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事実関係
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사실성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Factuality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính xác thực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

factuality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वास्तविकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gerçeklikleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fattualità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

faktyczności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фактичність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obiectivitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Πραγματικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

factuality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fakticitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

factuality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of factuality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FACTUALITY»

The term «factuality» is normally little used and occupies the 114.319 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FACTUALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «factuality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «factuality» 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 factuality

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QUOTES WITH «FACTUALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word factuality.
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E. L. Doctorow
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FACTUALITY»

Discover the use of factuality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to factuality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
Includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts, ranging from Woody Allen's Zelig, Peter Greenaway's The Falls, and the Beatles spoof The Rutles through to such classic examples as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap and ...
Jane Roscoe, Craig Hight, 2001
2
A Factuality Profiler for Eventualities in Text
My dissertation aims at designing and developing a factuality profiler, namely a tool devoted to the identification of the factuality degree associated to eventualities mentioned in discourse.
Roser Sauri, 2008
3
Media Texts, Authors and Readers: A Reader
9. The. Visual. Accomplishment. of. Factuality. DAVID GRADDOL Introduction The idea that television offers a 'window on the world' in which events and places 'out there' are unproblematically made available to viewers in the home has often  ...
David Graddol, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, 1994
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The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking
FACTUALITY, REALITY, AND ACTUALITY The scientific method often appears at first as a kind of narrow restrictive way of reaching understanding. The demands for precision are rigorous, the statistics forbidding, and, all too often, the results ...
Kenneth Hoover, Todd Donovan, 2007
5
Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
Conversely, (13–14) represents a step forward in the semantic evolution, in which the form has totally dismissed its reportive meaning, being only a marker of reduction of factuality ('non-factual'). In the spirit of this article, the basic point that  ...
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Jacqueline Visconti, 2009
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Modality in English: Theory and Description
(This use of the words factual and non-factual is of course a terminological hypallage: the factuality or non-factuality concerns the situation that is “willed” – not the volition itself.) Unlike in the case of (5a), it is not possible to add ...but I may not ...
Raphael Salkie, Pierre Busuttil, Johan van der Auwera, 2009
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The Paradox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the ...
For the finite I, however, in theoretical and practical use, there are possibility, actuality (factuality) and necessity. And since the highest synthesis of theoretical and practical philosophy is the combination of possibility with actuality (factuality),  ...
Leonardo V. Distaso, 2004
8
The Experience of Freedom
This also means that the text of this seminar could be annotated by saying that factuality unexpectedly happens to the "self" of the existent, and does not "found" it any more than factuality is for its part founded by the self or in the self. And this is ...
Jean-Luc Nancy, 1993
9
Cognitive and Social Factors in Early Deception
The ANOVA with SBAge showed that Factuality was clearly the factor that controlled the largest part of the variance [F (1 ,150) = 1126, e = .94, p < .001]. Also important was the element of Belief [F(1,150) = 127, e = .67, p < .001] and the ...
Stephen J. Ceci, Michelle DeSimo Leichtman, Maribeth Putnick, 2013
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Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West
Factuality, Non-factuality, and Contra-factuality of Modal Verbs As mentioned in § 1, modality is a linguistic category concerned with possibility and necessity. Theoretically, it is non-factual, since it commits the speaker to neither the truth nor the ...
Dingfang Shu, Ken Turner, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FACTUALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term factuality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Collisions of errors welcome the duo back
One journalistic principle that has suffered in the Times' lead is accuracy or better still, factuality. News is about facts and saying something in a ... «The Swazi Observer, Jul 15»
2
Google Skews Searches to Top Rankings, Study Shows
March this year, the search engine has begun developing a system that determines the factuality of web contents. The company claimed that it ... «iTech Post, Jun 15»
3
Dufu misappropriation of funds: Audit report to be extended a …
The board was unable to ascertain the factuality of the allegations and set up an independent committee (IC), comprising three independent ... «Malaysia Chronicle, Jun 15»
4
140journos' Melda Şener: We had to create our own alternative media
It's easy to share, reach and comment on, but it's not always reliable in terms of factuality, and thus makes people vulnerable in the event of an ... «Today's Zaman, Jun 15»
5
Review: 'Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld' Studies Perceptions …
Their factuality doesn't disguise their extreme emotionality. Few human gestures are more fraught, desperate or often final than these. «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
Opinion: On Meta-bias at USA Today
If I interview a source who is spouting biased misinformation, it's my job as a journalist to A) press for clarity and factuality, B) provide another ... «Poynter.org, Jun 15»
7
(Re-)defining nonfiction, again
Mitchell, Malcolm wrote, was prone to “radical departures from factuality,” reframing nonfiction as “some kind of hybrid, as yet to be named.”. «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
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Pants on Fire: The Genre That Cannot Be Named
... toward invention — toward “radical departures from factuality.” “Mitchell's genre,” she wrote, “is some kind of hybrid, as yet to be named.”. «The Millions, Jun 15»
9
Is Bogotá the Next Lima for Foodies?
The same movie scribe penned Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, so factuality is not necessary his forte, but Colombian frustration is not with ... «Paste Magazine, Jun 15»
10
As Brian Wilson and John Cusack Explain, 'Love & Mercy' Is No Run …
“The factuality is important,” he says. It's obvious that Wilson wouldn't be here talking if the 'facts' in the film hadn't been on point. Related: Don ... «Radio.com Music and Entertainment News, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Factuality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/factuality>. May 2024 ».
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