Definition of Real thing

1. Noun. Informal usage attributing authenticity.

Exact synonyms: Real Mccoy, Real Stuff
Generic synonyms: Authenticity, Genuineness, Legitimacy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Real Thing

real number
real number line
real number system
real numbers
real part
real parts
real plane
real presence
real properties
real property
real storage
real stuff
real superhero
real superheroes
real tennis
real thing (current term)
real time
real valued
real vector space
real world
realer
reales
realest
realgar
realgars
realia
realign
realigned
realigner
realigners

Literary usage of Real thing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The sign is only put up as a visible direction for our reverence, because the real thing is not physically present. Every one knows the use of sucli signs ..."

2. The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray, Roland Gray (1921)
"Is the corporation to which these wills of individual men are attributed a real thing, or only a thing by fiction, a fictitious entity ? ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"It is absolutely the real thing; a novel so fine, so sincere, so absorbing that it cannot be overpraised or oversold. Henry Sydnor Harrison's SAINT TERESA ..."

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