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单词 actuality
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actualityn.

Brit. /ˌaktʃʊˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌæk(t)ʃəˈwælədi/
Forms: Middle English actualite, Middle English actualyte, 1500s actualtie, 1500s– actuality, 1600s actualitie.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin actualitat-, actualitas.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin actualitat-, actualitas capacity for action, activity (13th cent. in a British source), state of being actual or real (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < actualis actual adj. + classical Latin -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare French actualité state of being actual or real (14th cent. in Middle French in an isolated attestation in sense ‘entity’; compare Old French actuaute state of that which is carried out or applied (1253)), and also Catalan actualitat (14th cent.), Spanish actualidad (1532 or earlier), Portuguese atualidade (1657), Italian attualità (1308). Compare actualness n., actualité n.In sense 4b after French actualité real events, current affairs, news (see actualité n.), subsequently also applied to a film on a current affairs topic (especially one of the early such films produced by the Lumière brothers). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ:ktiuˌæ·lĭti) /ˌæktjuːˈælɪtɪ/.
1. Capacity for action, effective power; activity. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > [noun]
speed971
mightOE
ferec1175
evenc1225
powerc1300
possibilityc1385
actualitya1398
actualnessa1398
mowing?a1425
virtuality1483
cana1500
canning1549
reach1556
capability1587
strain1593
capableness1594
ablesse1598
fathoma1616
dacity1636
factivitya1643
capacity1647
range1695
span1805
quality1856
faculty1859
octane1989
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 114 Þe sonne..haþ most actualite [L. actualitatem] & vertue of worchinge.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια viii. xxxvii. 690 I speake of a body actually perspicuous, beecause the action, or if I may so say, the actuality of it ceaseth when the light fadeth.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. iii. v Yet falls she down at last and lowly lies..sleep doth seise her actualities.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 122 God, by reason of his infinite actualitie, permits nothing but what he wils.
1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. 162 Powers are the Atmospheres as to their Actualities.
2. An actual thing or fact; an existing condition or circumstance; a reality. Frequently in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > a reality or a real thing or state of things
visagec1374
fact?1560
actuality1587
reality1613
real1615
realty1616
fact of lifea1806
ground truth1833
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1261 Solemne and subtill relations of abilities, potentialities, actualities, and essenties.
1657 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Friendship 10 The possibilities and the circumstances of converse are the determinations and actualities of it.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 42 in Scepsis Scientifica These distinct possibilities are founded upon distinct actualities.
1717 J. Gay Three Hours after Marriage ii. 51 They do not affect the motus Primo-primi, or Intentions; only Actualities, Niece.
1743 C. Packe Ανκογραϕια 104 An Authority good enough to receive it as an Actuality or matter of Fact.
1832 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 5 Apr. 168 The public mind, which substitutes its own undefined notions or passions for real objects and historical actualities.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. i. 328 A ‘Virtuality perfected into an Actuality’.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 250 His words would therefore be few, and directed to the actualities of the case.
1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky i. iv. 61 ‘Cosmic dust’ has come to be considered an actuality.
1956 W. Mellers in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 345 He believed art to be a dream-image, lifting us above sordid actualities.
1999 W. Soyinka Burden of Memory ii. 110 The actualities that led to the creation of Negritude were palpable and existed in the present continuous.
3.
a. The state of being actual or real; reality, existing objective fact.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun]
truthc1330
acta1398
in existencea1425
realty1440
veritya1634
reality1647
actualness1668
actuality1675
thinghood1845
factual1855
out there1955
1675 J. Howe Living Temple i. iv. 162 An infinite possibility on the part of the creature..and, consequently, a proportionable infinite actuality of power on the Creators part.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 103 The Actuality of its Nature.
1795 T. Pownall Intellect. Physicks vi. 76 This definition is true of an abstract idea, and exists only therein: it is not true in any actuality of existence.
1810 H. Townsend Statist. Surv. County Cork vii. 287 The objection..is not to the certainty, but to the uncertainty of the event, not to the actuality of improvement, but to the precariousness of innovation.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 90 To sacrifice a truth of actuality to a truth of feeling.
1867 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 313 Which passed from possibility into actuality.
1909 Times 30 Apr. 4/6 The plan appeals by its simplicity and actuality: it is being carried out all the time with visible results.
1942 D. D. Runes Dict. Philos. 230/2 The plight of being confined to the experience of only part of actuality.
2004 I. M. Banks Algebraist (2005) i. 23 In all that flux of chaos, propaganda, distortion, drivel and weirdness, there were nuggets of actuality.
b. in actuality: = in reality at reality n. Phrases 1.
ΚΠ
1677 F. Bampfield All in One 129 Not Essences in Potentiality on the one day, and Existences in Actuality on the other days.
1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. xvi. 397 That there are things existing in act, in reality, in actuality (call it as you please) we have the evidence both of our Senses, and of our internal Consciousness.
1864 G. H. Lewes Aristotle xii. 240 The so-called Intellect of the Vital Principle..has in actuality no existence prior to the act of intelligence.
a1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1958) VIII. ii. ix. 247 But if this occasion did in actuality not arise, such habit of thought..would be a nullity.
1950 W. J. Moore Physical Chem. i. 22 Reversible processes are never realizable in actuality since they must be carried out infinitely slowly.
1991 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 30/2 We are already in actuality scientists, ready and able,..to settle disagreements by appeals to common experience.
4.
a. Realism in description or representation.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > realism of stories, etc.
mimesisa1586
actuality1812
realism1856
realizableness1886
1812 G. Crabbe Tales Pref. p. xix Pope himself has no small portion of this actuality of relation, this nudity of description.
1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxiv. 83 It invests traditions and legends with the hard colouring of modern actuality.
1879 W. E. Henley in Academy 5 Apr. 298/1 Some of the characters grouped about her have a flavour of actuality.
1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time ix. 150 And he related a story of a woman, a lover, a deceived husband, jewels and a sale very Parisian, and very much du jour in its after-the-War actuality.
2004 B. Laman James Joyce & German Theory i. 29 The ancients, who followed simple nature and limited themselves to actuality, depended on only one mode of feeling, whether the external form of their poetry was lyric, epic/narrative, or dramatic.
b. The presentation of real events in a film, television or radio programme, etc.; documentary. Also (in plural): scenes of real life depicted on screen. Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television broadcast > qualities of
actuality1925
televisibility1942
viewability1950
televisuality1970
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > realistic quality of film
actuality1925
vérité1966
1916 Times 6 Sept. 11/4 The first item on the programme was a short and excellent film, also of war actualities.]
1925 Times 6 Oct. 12/4 He had hoped to present Red Russia, a film of actuality, as well as Morosko, founded on a Russian fairy-tale.
1929 H. G. Wells King who was King i. §1. 10 The films began with ‘actualities’, the record of more or less formal current events.
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 3 Actuality, presentation of real persons and things to give a picture of contemporary life in a particular aspect; documentary.
1944 L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 12 The radio dramatist..must select his actuality material with great discrimination.
1963 Listener 3 Oct. 501/2 Television is a medium far more successful at documentary or ‘actuality’ than at fiction.
1990 E. Bowser Transformation of Cinema iv. 53 Even though greater numbers of actuality films were still being produced at that time, many more copies of story films were sold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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