actuality

  • 11actuality —    by Claire Colebrook   It might seem that Deleuze s philosophy is dominated by an affirmation of the virtual and is highly critical of a western tradition that has privileged actuality. To a certain extent this is true, and this privilege can… …

    The Deleuze dictionary

  • 12actuality — [[t]æ̱ktʃuæ̱lɪti[/t]] actualities 1) PHRASE: PHR with cl (emphasis) You can use in actuality to emphasize that what you are saying is true, when it contradicts or contrasts with what you have previously said. It would have been a monumental feat… …

    English dictionary

  • 13actuality — UK [ˌæktʃuˈælətɪ] / US noun Word forms actuality : singular actuality plural actualities formal 1) [uncountable] what really exists Physics deals as much with possibility as it does with actuality. 2) [countable] a fact or something that is real… …

    English dictionary

  • 14actuality — ac|tu|al|i|ty [ ,æktʃu æləti ] noun FORMAL 1. ) uncount what really exists: Physics deals as much with possibility as it does with actuality. 2. ) count a fact or something that is real: I tell you all of this to educate you in the actualities of …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 15actuality — /ak chooh al i tee/, n., pl. actualities. 1. actual existence; reality. 2. an actual condition or circumstance; fact: Space travel is now an actuality. [1350 1400; ME actualite < ML actualitas. See ACTUAL, ITY] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 16actuality — ac|tu|al|i|ty [ˌæktʃuˈælıti] n plural actualities formal 1.) [C usually plural] facts, rather than things that people believe or imagine = ↑realities ▪ the grim actualities of prison life 2.) [U] the state of being real or really existing ▪ In&#8230; …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 17actuality — noun 1 (countable usually plural) something that is real; a fact: the grim actualities of prison life 2 (U) formal the state of being real existence (1) 3 in actuality formal really …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 18Actuality film — The actuality film is a non fiction film genre that like the documentary film uses footage of real events, places, and things, yet unlike the documentary is not structured into a larger argument, picture of the phenomenon or coherent whole. In&#8230; …

    Wikipedia

  • 19actuality — noun (plural ties) Date: 1618 1. the quality or state of being actual 2. something that is actual ; fact, reality < possible risks which have been seized upon as actualities T. S. Eliot > …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 20actuality — noun a) the state of existing; existence b) the quality of being actual or factual; fact …

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