actuality

[ ak-choo-al-i-tee ]

/ ˌæk tʃuˈæl ɪ ti /

actual existence; reality.

an actual condition or circumstance; fact: Space travel is now an actuality.

Origin of actuality

1350–1400; Middle English actualite < Medieval Latin āctuālitās. See actual, -ity

non·ac·tu·al·i·ty, noun, plural non·ac·tu·al·i·ties.

In actuality, there were less than 300 U.S. soldiers in the valley at any given time.

Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley |Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman |November 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth.

The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero |Regina Lizik |October 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But in actuality, the novel contains ample material that points to a real and specific time and place.

This Week’s Hot Reads: April 14, 2014 |Charles Shafaieh |April 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
To BE is to exist, to have actuality; a BI is a guy or girl with bisexuality.

National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words |David Bukszpan |April 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

There is a need to humanize plans that work on paper, in the abstract, but lack touchy-feely elements in actuality.

What the Stars Hold for Your Week |Starsky + Cox |July 30, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The actuality of the sealing ordinance in marriage finds an illustration in the personal teachings of the Savior.

The House of the Lord |James E. Talmage
He went about absorbed in the interest and the actuality of this dream.

The Rainbow |D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
It was so unreal, so dreamlike, that for many days I had trouble convincing myself of its actuality.

Greener Than You Think |Ward Moore
My people, who know nothing as a rule, of course—but they tell me the woman is in actuality the daughter of a queen.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story |Various
All objects of thought exist, either purely in potentiality, or purely in actuality, or both in potentiality and in actuality.

Christianity and Greek Philosophy |Benjamin Franklin Cocker

actuality

/ (ˌæktʃʊˈælɪtɪ) /

true existence; reality

(sometimes plural) a fact or condition that is real