ACTUALITY


Meaning of ACTUALITY in English

(actualities)

1.

You can use in ~ to emphasize that what you are saying is true, when it contradicts or contrasts with what you have previously said.

In ~, Teddie did not have a disorder but merely a difficult temperament...

= in reality, actually

PHRASE: PHR with cl emphasis

2.

Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined.

It exists in dreams rather than ~.

= reality

N-UNCOUNT

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .