actuality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ac=tu=al=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

actuality, n. 

 The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.  South.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

actuality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 reality; what is the case.
2 (in pl.) existing conditions.

Etymology

ME f. OF actualit{eacute} entity or med.L actualitas (as ACTUAL)

THESAURUS

actuality

accomplished fact, achievement, actualization, attainment, authenticity, basis, being, confirmability, demonstratability, doubtlessness, embodiment, essence, eternal verities, externalization, fact, factuality, fait accompli, good sooth, grim reality, historical truth, historicity, incarnation, incontestability, incontrovertibility, indisputability, indubitability, indubitableness, irrefragability, irrefutability, materialization, not a dream, objective existence, provability, questionlessness, reality, sooth, substance, the true, trueness, truth, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unconfutability, undeniability, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, unimpeachability, unquestionability, unrefutability, veracity, verifiability, verity, very truth

ROGET THESAURUS

actuality

Existence

N existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology, existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic, actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto, ens rationis, ergo sum cogito, thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?.