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actualness|ˈæktjuːəlnɪs| [f. actual a. + -ness.] = actuality. †1. Active working or operation, activity. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (1495) 340 One poynt of lyghte or of shynynge were suffysaunt to beshyne alle the world, for noblynesse of matere and for moast actualnesse and doynge of fourme. 1742Bailey, Actuality, Actualness, Perfection of being. 2. The quality of being actual, actuality.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §3, 28, Actualness, existence, extant. 1755In Johnson. 1876Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xiv. 441 The real fact through whose vitality and actualness the stones were put one upon another. |