ACTUALITY


Meaning of ACTUALITY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ æktʃuælɪti ]

( actualities)

1.

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

In actuality, 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 actuality.

= reality

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