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reality

ri'æliti8 senses · 199 ms
Level A2CET-4CET-6高考考研Oxford 3000
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noun/ɹiːˈælɪti//ɹiˈæləti/
  1. 1

    The state of being actual or real; realness.uncountableusually

    • The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
  2. 2

    The real world.uncountableusually

    • A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
    • Does this mean that reality has caught up with science fiction?
  3. 3

    A real entity, event, or other fact.uncountableusually

    • The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
    • There are several new realities that this team now needs to accept: our old project is dead, and our new project is now the priority.
  4. 4

    The entirety of all that is real.uncountableusually

    • Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking throug
  5. 5

    An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.uncountableusually

  6. 6

    Loyalty; devotion.obsoleteuncountableusually

    • To express our reality to the emperor.
  7. 7

    Realty; real estate.obsoleteuncountableusually

  8. 8

    Reality television.attributiveuncountableusually

    • a foray into reality programming

syn. truth · actuality

ant. fantasy

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