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reality
English
Etymology
[circa 1540] From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin re?lit?s, from Late Latin re?lis (“real”), equivalent to real +? -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?æl?ti/, /?i?æl?ti/
- Rhymes: -æl?ti
Noun
reality (usually uncountable, plural realities)
- The state of being actual or real.
- A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
- A real entity, event or other fact.
- 1770, James Beattie, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
- My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
- 1770, James Beattie, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
- The entirety of all that is real.
- An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
- (obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- To express our reality to the emperor.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- (law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.
Synonyms
- truth
- actuality
Antonyms
- fantasy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Usage notes
Adjectives that collocate with reality include: harsh; stark; brutal; grim; bitter
Further reading
- reality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- irately, tearily
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English reality. Doublet of realidad.
Noun
reality m (plural realities or realitys)
- (television) reality show
- Synonym: reality show
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presence
English
Alternative forms
- præsence (archaic)
Etymology
Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem. Displaced native Old English andweardnes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??z?ns/
- Hyphenation: pres?ence
Noun
presence (countable and uncountable, plural presences)
- The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
- A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
- A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.
- Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
- A company's business activity in a particular market. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (archaic) An assembly of great persons.
- The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (audio) Synonym of room tone
Antonyms
- absence
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
presence (third-person singular simple present presences, present participle presencing, simple past and past participle presenced)
- (philosophy, transitive, intransitive) To make or become present.
- 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen, page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.
- 1998, H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry, page 59,
- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
- 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, ?ISBN (paperback), page 118,
- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
- 1985, David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen, page 59,
Related terms
- present
- presentation
- omnipresence
Further reading
- presence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “presence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- presence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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