The quality of being real or having an actual existence.

Formal or essential nature; the characteristic or distinctive property by which a thing is defined. Also, the condition of possessing formal…

Reality, actual existence; genuineness. Obsolete.

The fact or quality of being real; reality, truth.

The quality or condition of being ‘that’, i.e. of existing as a definite thing.

The quality, character, or fact of being positive (in various senses); positiveness.

The quality of being actual or real, actuality. Cf. actuality, n. 3a.

Reality of existence; actuality, affirmative nature. Obsolete.

(apparently) substantiality, substance.

The fact or state of being something; real or material existence, entity.

= thinghood, n.

The fact or quality of being real; actuality, reality.

The fact or character of being a thing (sometimes spec. as distinct from a person); reality; actuality.

poetic. Reality, actual existence, as contrasted with the imagination, a dream, etc. Obsolete.

(a) The fact that a thing is. (b) That which a thing is in itself; essence.

the quality of being thingy; (a) reality, actuality, objectivity; (b) devotion to or concern with things, practical or matter-of-fact character.