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Definition of Actuality
1. Noun. The state of actually existing objectively. "A hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"
Specialized synonyms: Entelechy, Genuineness, Realism, Reality, Realness, Reality, The True, Trueness, Truth, Verity
Attributes: Actual, Existent
Derivative terms: Actual, Actual, Actual, Actual
Definition of Actuality
1. n. The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.
Definition of Actuality
1. Noun. the state of existing; existence ¹
2. Noun. the quality of being actual or factual; fact ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Actuality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Actuality
Literary usage of Actuality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"itself necessary, but it is posited as the other-being of actuality and potentiality
opposed to each other. The real necessity contains therefore ..."
2. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"POTENTIALITY, actuality AND NOVELTY From Aristotle to the present the concept of
potentiality ... Thus the distinction between potentiality and actuality, ..."
3. The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1892)
"Possibility días suspended is the issuing of a new actuality, ... Really however
an immediate actuality of this kind includes in it the germ of something ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... the relation of the product under discussion to the original actuality in
particular and in general remains to be investigated. ..."