reality

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
  2. noun the state of being actual or real
  3. noun the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be

Etymology

From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.

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world

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