Synonyms for reality
riˈæl ɪ tire·al·i·ty

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1. realitynoun

   Synonyms:
   actuality, real world

2. realitynoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   real world, actuality

3. realitynoun

   A real entity, event or other fact.

   The ultimate reality of life is it ends in death.

   Synonyms:
   real world, actuality

4. realitynoun

   The entirety of all that is real.

   Synonyms:
   actuality, real world

5. realitynoun

   An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

   Synonyms:
   actuality, real world

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1. reality

   Truth is primarily and verity is always a quality of thought or speech, especially of speech, as in exact conformity to fact. Veracity is properly a quality of a person, the habit of speaking and the disposition to speak the truth; a habitual liar may on some occasions speak the truth, but that does not constitute him a man of veracity; on the other hand, a person of undoubted veracity may state (through ignorance or misinformation) what is not the truth. Truthfulness is a quality that may inhere either in a person or in his statements or beliefs. Candor, frankness, honesty, and ingenuousness are allied with veracity, and verity with truth, while truthfulness may accord with either. Truth in a secondary sense may be applied to intellectual action or moral character, in the former case becoming a close synonym of veracity; as, I know him to be a man of truth.

   Compare synonyms for DECEPTION.

   Synonyms:
   candor, frankness, honesty, ingenuousness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, verity

   Antonyms:
   deceit, deception, delusion, duplicity, error, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fiction, guile, imposture, lie, mendacity, untruth

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1. reality

   Synonyms:
   verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality

   Antonyms:
   fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow, figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera, unreality

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1. world, realitynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   globe, humankind, public, human race, earthly concern, man, cosmos, humanity, world, creation, macrocosm, universe, worldly concern, populace, human beings, mankind, existence, realism, humans, realness, earth, domain

   Antonyms:
   unreality, irreality

2. reality, realness, realismnoun

   the state of being actual or real

   "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

   Synonyms:
   realism, naive realism, world, naturalism, realness, pragmatism

   Antonyms:
   unreality, irreality

3. realitynoun

   the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be

   "businessmen have to face harsh realities"

   Synonyms:
   realism, world, realness

   Antonyms:
   irreality, unreality

4. realitynoun

   the quality possessed by something that is real

   Synonyms:
   realism, world, realness

   Antonyms:
   unreality, irreality

Matched Categories

1. • Actuality
   • Experience
   • Materiality

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1. having existence

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. realitynoun

   Synonyms:
   truth, verity, actuality, fact, actual existence, matter of fact

2. realitynoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) realty, immobility

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1. realitynoun

   Synonyms:
   actuality, verity

   Antonyms:
   unreality, phantasm, simulation, phantom

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1. List of paraphrases for "reality":

   fact, realities, truth, realistic, practice, actuality, realism, situation, actual

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How to use reality in a sentence?

1. Gabriel García Márquez:

   Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

2. Angela Merkel:

   It means for example that there cannot be any no-go areas, that there cannot be areas where no-one dares to go but these places are a reality, one has to call them by name and do something about them.

3. Montana Republican Rep.Matt Rosendale:

   Advocating for taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries is an absolute disgrace, this is yet another radical policy proposal by an administration with no concern for the reality of its harmful effects on those suffering from mental illness who have sacrificed for our country.

4. Eric Lascelles:

   The combination of low oil prices, low bond yields and a low euro unite to provide powerful economic stimulus. This theory is rapidly becoming a reality as euro zone economic surprises have veered from extremely negative to extremely positive in very short order.

5. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:

   The ability to be' present' anywhere will also help us address some of the biggest social issues of our day — like ballooning housing costs and inequality of opportunity by geography, today, many people feel like they have to move to cities because that's where the jobs are... Imagine if you could live anywhere you chose and access any job anywhere else. If we deliver on what we're building, this should be much closer to reality by 2030.