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单词 actuality
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Definition of actuality in English:

actuality

noun aktʃʊˈalɪtiˌæk(t)ʃəˈwælədi
mass noun
  • 1The state of existing in reality.

    the building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It seems that the image of the economy in the popular mind lags some 20 years behind actuality.
    • In actuality, the problem is not the weapons themselves but the people who misuse them.
    • It is a movie that struggles for significance as it fashions actuality out of ambiguity.
    • The track is nearly seven minutes long, but, in actuality, it feels almost too short.
    • Christianity's foundation centers around the actuality of one event in history.
    • In theory it is great, but when you are doing it in actuality you run into problems that you never envisaged.
    • In actuality, living where you need a car to do everything runs counter to Ireland's spatial strategy.
    • Moreover, the impact of actuality is much more potent in the theater than in the concert hall.
    • This is true even as film since Welles is capable of a quasi-realism indistinguishable from actuality.
    • Well, in actuality it's not a question you can give a plain yes or no because it is condition based.
    • Autobiographical immediacy gives his fictitious reign of terror gritty actuality.
    • Lately, most of us have inhabited the space between the terrible actuality and these daydreams.
    • On the other hand, you shouldn't let actuality get in the way of a good story!
    • Sadra warns against the idea that potentiality is prior to actuality in an absolute sense.
    • If ever the world needed a symbol of the potency of the threat that confronts us all, here it was as frightful actuality.
    • Here the audience is confronted by the transfer of energy and force from concept into actuality.
    • It is that sense of actuality created that helps make the film so very unnerving.
    • The hotel is a temporary residence, so maybe you'll soon move from wish to actuality.
    • It felt like it had been years since I had last seen her, when in actuality it had only been a few months.
    • I want to relate the actuality, the reality of the contemporary performance piece to classical traditions.
    Synonyms
    reality, fact, truth, the real world, real life, existence, living
    really, in fact, in actual fact, in point of fact, as a matter of fact, in reality, actually, in truth, if truth be told, to tell the truth
    dated indeed, truly
    archaic in sooth, verily
    rare in the concrete
    1. 1.1actualities Existing conditions or facts.
      the grim actualities of prison life
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He sees not only the actualities in a man, he also sees the possibilities.
      • They have tended to advocate a certain view of Russia's prospects and of the East-West relationship that may not be warranted by the actualities of the situation.
      • Only the most naive ideology could give the same place to this forecast that it does to the political actualities of the German labour movement.
      • They are imaginative fictions which intersect with aspects of their respective contemporary historical actualities.
      • For Schiller, the depiction of these exemplary scenes would serve the function of a practice run, permitting us to become aware of the actualities of history through a protective but transparent barrier.
      • When do such actualities in the real world of our experience necessarily reshape beliefs inherited from another world and time?
      • Anna - absolutely, I'm very much talking about the principle and not the actualities of the situation.
      • She has a writer's eye for what the connections are between words and actualities, events and the people they happen to.
      • Nostalgia about the World War II era has obscured the actualities of that period, with partisan and domestic politics not simply disappearing after Pearl Harbor.
      • His ideas gave passion to his life - and blinded him to the actualities around him.
      • Scale depends on one's capacity to be conscious of the actualities of perception.
      • Truth relates to actualities and objectives external to human perception - insofar as we can prove it, rain is only the precipitation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
      • Although they enthusiastically supported the party's general programme, the bolder among them dared to point out the gap between ideals and actualities.
      • Morality is concerned with how one ought to act rather than actualities such as what one does or might do given impunity from consequences.
      • Thomas Paine once wrote, ‘We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.’
      • These possibilities and actualities turn Berry from a doomsaying prophet into a trusted guide and even a friend, a sharer of hope.
      • And how can we tell the difference between marketing hype and the complex actualities of production and consumption?
      • It would have been appreciated if their interest in my team had resulted in a communication relating to facts and actualities and not tabloid-type drivel.
      • The lyrical intensity of certain passages conveys with great beauty Lawrence's ‘vision’ as well as the implosion of that vision against the actualities of the Arab world.
      • But we live not only with positive general principles but with what Tocqueville (him again!) discerned as contradicting actualities.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'activity'): from Old French actualite or medieval Latin actualitas, from actualis 'active, practical', from actus (see act).

 
 

Definition of actuality in US English:

actuality

nounˌæk(t)ʃəˈwælədiˌak(t)SHəˈwalədē
  • 1Actual existence, typically as contrasted with what was intended, expected, or believed.

    the building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines
    a mission was sent to investigate the actuality of the situation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Well, in actuality it's not a question you can give a plain yes or no because it is condition based.
    • It seems that the image of the economy in the popular mind lags some 20 years behind actuality.
    • This is true even as film since Welles is capable of a quasi-realism indistinguishable from actuality.
    • Autobiographical immediacy gives his fictitious reign of terror gritty actuality.
    • Here the audience is confronted by the transfer of energy and force from concept into actuality.
    • On the other hand, you shouldn't let actuality get in the way of a good story!
    • It is that sense of actuality created that helps make the film so very unnerving.
    • In theory it is great, but when you are doing it in actuality you run into problems that you never envisaged.
    • The hotel is a temporary residence, so maybe you'll soon move from wish to actuality.
    • Moreover, the impact of actuality is much more potent in the theater than in the concert hall.
    • Lately, most of us have inhabited the space between the terrible actuality and these daydreams.
    • Sadra warns against the idea that potentiality is prior to actuality in an absolute sense.
    • In actuality, the problem is not the weapons themselves but the people who misuse them.
    • It felt like it had been years since I had last seen her, when in actuality it had only been a few months.
    • Christianity's foundation centers around the actuality of one event in history.
    • If ever the world needed a symbol of the potency of the threat that confronts us all, here it was as frightful actuality.
    • The track is nearly seven minutes long, but, in actuality, it feels almost too short.
    • It is a movie that struggles for significance as it fashions actuality out of ambiguity.
    • In actuality, living where you need a car to do everything runs counter to Ireland's spatial strategy.
    • I want to relate the actuality, the reality of the contemporary performance piece to classical traditions.
    Synonyms
    reality, fact, truth, the real world, real life, existence, living
    really, in fact, in actual fact, in point of fact, as a matter of fact, in reality, actually, in truth, if truth be told, to tell the truth
    1. 1.1actualities Existing conditions or facts.
      the grim actualities of prison life
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It would have been appreciated if their interest in my team had resulted in a communication relating to facts and actualities and not tabloid-type drivel.
      • Truth relates to actualities and objectives external to human perception - insofar as we can prove it, rain is only the precipitation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
      • They have tended to advocate a certain view of Russia's prospects and of the East-West relationship that may not be warranted by the actualities of the situation.
      • Morality is concerned with how one ought to act rather than actualities such as what one does or might do given impunity from consequences.
      • Scale depends on one's capacity to be conscious of the actualities of perception.
      • Anna - absolutely, I'm very much talking about the principle and not the actualities of the situation.
      • Although they enthusiastically supported the party's general programme, the bolder among them dared to point out the gap between ideals and actualities.
      • These possibilities and actualities turn Berry from a doomsaying prophet into a trusted guide and even a friend, a sharer of hope.
      • His ideas gave passion to his life - and blinded him to the actualities around him.
      • The lyrical intensity of certain passages conveys with great beauty Lawrence's ‘vision’ as well as the implosion of that vision against the actualities of the Arab world.
      • They are imaginative fictions which intersect with aspects of their respective contemporary historical actualities.
      • When do such actualities in the real world of our experience necessarily reshape beliefs inherited from another world and time?
      • Thomas Paine once wrote, ‘We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.’
      • Nostalgia about the World War II era has obscured the actualities of that period, with partisan and domestic politics not simply disappearing after Pearl Harbor.
      • He sees not only the actualities in a man, he also sees the possibilities.
      • Only the most naive ideology could give the same place to this forecast that it does to the political actualities of the German labour movement.
      • She has a writer's eye for what the connections are between words and actualities, events and the people they happen to.
      • And how can we tell the difference between marketing hype and the complex actualities of production and consumption?
      • For Schiller, the depiction of these exemplary scenes would serve the function of a practice run, permitting us to become aware of the actualities of history through a protective but transparent barrier.
      • But we live not only with positive general principles but with what Tocqueville (him again!) discerned as contradicting actualities.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘activity’): from Old French actualite or medieval Latin actualitas, from actualis ‘active, practical’, from actus (see act).

 
 
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