Antonyms for realities
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ree-al-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : riˈæl ɪ ti |
Definition of realities
Origin :- 1540s, "quality of being real," from French réalité and directly Medieval Latin realitatem (nominative realitas), from Late Latin realis (see real (adj.)). Meaning "real existence, all that is real" is from 1640s; that of "the real state (of something)" is from 1680s. Sometimes 17c.-18c. also meaning "sincerity." Reality-based attested from 1960. Reality television from 1991.
- noun facts of existence
- It is not easy for an Anglo-Saxon to confess the realities of affection in vital intimacies.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- He left the theatre in an exalted mood in which he had little thought for the realities.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- But if our intuitions are not realities, then nothing is a reality.
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- "I want politics to be realities, if that's what you mean," he said, coldly.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- The most solemn of all realities have been degraded into the passwords of technical theology.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- They were pure conceptions, detached from the realities, of which he then knew nothing.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- But why should we dispute about names when we have realities of such importance to consider?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Under 'Not-being' the Eleatic had included all the realities of the sensible world.
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
- The sensible things are not realities, but shadows only, in relation to the truth.'
- Extract from : « Meno » by Plato
Synonyms for realities
- absoluteness
- actuality
- authenticity
- being
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- certainty
- concreteness
- corporeality
- deed
- entity
- existence
- genuineness
- how things are
- like it is
- materiality
- matter
- name of the game
- nuts and bolts
- object
- palpability
- perceptibility
- phenomenon
- presence
- real world
- realism
- realness
- sensibility
- solidity
- substance
- substantiality
- substantive
- tangibility
- truth
- validity
- verisimilitude
- verity
- way of it
- what's what
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