Reality
WordNet
noun
(1) The quality possessed by something that is real
(2) All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
"His world was shattered"
"We live in different worlds"
"For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
(3) The state of being actual or real
"The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"
(4) The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be
"Businessmen have to face harsh realities"
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Etymology
Recorded since 1550, originally a legal term in the sense of "fixed property" (cfr. real estate), from Medieval Latin realitas, from Late Latin realis 'real'; meaning "real existence" is from 1647.
Noun
- The state of being actual or real.
- The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend
- A real entity, event or other fact
- The ultimate reality of life is it ends in death
- The entirety of all that is real.
- An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.