Lexic.us

Definition of Realness

1. Noun. The state of being actual or real. "The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"

Definition of Realness

1. n. The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Definition of Realness

1. Noun. The state of being real; reality. ¹

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Definition of Realness

1. the state of being real [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Realness

Literary usage of Realness

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

1. Methods of Teaching: Their Basis and Statement Developed from a Functional by Werrett Wallace Charters (1912)
"... METHODS OF SECURING realness If we were able to follow the child in toto and solve only those problems for him which arise without our manipulation, ..."

2. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1852)
"... way the true significance of the state into which the world has been brought by the fall. in the objective realness of supernatural grace in the church, ..."

3. A First Book in Psychology by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"The feeling of realness is to be grouped with the feelings of pleasantness and of unpleasantness, as an attributive element. Like these (and unlike the ..."

4. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"experience of realness is a basic component of perceptual processes. It is well known in psychopathology that the perceptual world might feel unreal not ..."

5. Cultural Reality by Florian Znaniecki (1919)
"Thus, an object that has lost some of its material realness by physical ... We know, for example, that in myths which have material realness as their basis ..."

6. Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought-processes by Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"recognises 'feelings of realness' as a sub-group of the 'attributive elements of ... The feeling of realness or consciousness of reality (126) can best be ..."

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