actuality
/ˌækt͡ʃuˈælɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well.""
- "A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders."
- "This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap."
- "By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French