单词 | sense of reality |
释义 | > as lemmassense of reality sense of reality n. an ability to judge or assess what is real, appropriate, or possible, esp. as opposed to what is only imagined or desired; (also) an impression or awareness of what is real or true; (also occasionally) the quality of being realistic or authentic. ΚΠ 1736 E. Smith Cure of Deism II. xviii. 261 It is Madness to doubt their own Existence or the Truth of what they feel within themselves; if any thing has a Title to the feeling Sense of Reality it must be that. 1798 N. Strong Serm. on Var. Subj. I. xi. 187 A sight of moral glory, is the high and all-conquering evidence, which gives to the mind a sense of reality, and raises it above all doubting. 1807 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 3026 The necessary tendency of true Love to generate a feeling of Duty by increasing the sense of reality. 1824 Museum 4 524 We confess to have been both greatly entertained and informed by such pleasing pages; which unite very happily the sense of reality with the incident and extraordinary vicissitude of a novel. 1907 H. Adams Educ. Henry Adams v. 62 The towns were dirty enough,—unimproved, unrestored, untouristed,—to retain the sense of reality. 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. i. 144 The female of the species..by the age of fifteen has a clearer sense of reality in these things than most men have to the doddering end of their days. 1984 C. Bigsby in A. Miller Archbishop's Ceiling 65 The politicians and their agents had seemingly conspired to corrupt not only the political process but also our sense of reality. 2006 Independent 22 Mar. (Property section) 27/2 Some crackpot scheme dreamed up by those at the top who have lost all sense of reality. < as lemmas |
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