actuality.

Actual existence or occurrence rather than merely a possibility, conception or hypothetical case.

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Words that belong together

• in actuality
• actuality of an event

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In actuality, the arrangement retained a limitation absent from the proposed model.

The actuality of the event was checked separately from the later interpretations of it.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular actuality; plural actualities. Often uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: criterion analysis, relative importance, potential and actual distinction, evidence interpretation. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, research and conceptual explanation. Commonness: uncommon.