Actuality Meaning
/ˌækt͡ʃuˈælɪti/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe state of existing; existence.
nounAn instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.
Sentence Examples
Technological progress is slower in actuality in many respects according to some perspectives.
I might seem strong, but in actuality I am anything but.
CEFR Practice Quiz
In ____, the plan failed because the team ignored the warning signs from the beginning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In ____, the situation was much different than what was reported.
Word Origin & History
From actual + -ity. * (television): Influenced by French actualité.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well.""
— 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
"A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders."
— 1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:
"This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap."
— 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:
"By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two."
— 1999, “The Variety Stage collection”, in Selected Materials from the Library of Congress:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In ____, the plan failed because the team ignored the warning signs from the beginning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In ____, the situation was much different than what was reported.