Actuality
[æktjʊ'ælɪtɪ;-tʃʊ-] or [,æktʃu'æləti]
Definition
(noun.) the state of actually existing objectively; 'a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality'.
Inputed by Kurt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.
Typist: Sonia
Examples
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She herself knew too well the actuality of humanity, its hideous actuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That old shadow-world, the actuality of the past--ah, let it go! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The teacher presents in actuality what the pupil represents only in posse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If only society will stand fairly still while their career is in the making they are content to avoid the actualities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Although in the foregoing pages the reader has been made acquainted with the tremendous import of the actualities lying behind those etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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