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UK
/ɹɪˈælɪti/
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[ US /ˌɹiˈæɫəˌti/ ]
[ US /ˌɹiˈæɫəˌti/ ]
NOUN
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the state of being actual or real
the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him -
the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be
businessmen have to face harsh realities - the quality possessed by something that is real
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all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
we live in different worlds
his world was shattered
How To Use reality In A Sentence
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
- An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
- Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
- That this is true is not to suggest that reality always comports with state law and college rules.
- This also reflects his personal hygiene, outwardly appearing clean but in reality, dirty. STUART: A Life Backwards
- Trying to link things cross-departmentally is something that in my experience gets talked about a lot, but in reality rarely happens. The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology
- “At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
