actuality

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/ˌækt͡ʃuˈælɪti/

noun

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I might seem strong, but in actuality I am anything but.
Technological progress is slower in actuality in many respects according to some perspectives.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
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.
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.

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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
"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
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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From actual + -ity. * (television): Influenced by French actualité.