In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).actualityac‧tu‧al‧i‧ty /ˌæktʃuˈæləti/ noun (plural actualities) formal 
the grim actualities of prison life2[uncountable] the state of being real or really existing: In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time.
- I lived it twice now, once in anticipation, once in actuality.
- In actuality, cheese making is preservation of a food by dehydration.
- It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town, though in actuality it might be only five or six.
- Jane thinks that they will probably marry in actuality but that he can not love the vain, shallow woman.
- You should not confuse the 33 illusion of motion with its actuality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).
1[countable usually plural] facts, rather than things that people believe or imagine SYN realities: In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like). the grim actualities of prison life2[uncountable] the state of being real or really existing: In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).