different between tacticity vs facticity

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Noun

tacticity (countable and uncountable, plural tacticities)

1. (chemistry) The relative stereochemistry of adjacent chiral centers within a macromolecule.

English

Etymology

From fact +? -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fæk?t?s?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fæk?t?s?ti/, [-?i]
• Hyphenation: fact?i?ci?ty

Noun

facticity (usually uncountable, plural facticities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.

   Synonyms: factuality, factualness
2. (uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over.

   Synonyms: dasein, thrownness
3. (countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.

   Synonym: given

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• facticity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia