reality
/ɹiˈæləti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend."
- "While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real."
- "A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning."
- "As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life."
- "Does this mean that reality has caught up with science fiction?"
- "The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor. French réalitéder. English reality From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹiˈæləti/
- British English: /ɹiːˈælɪti/