From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishactualityac‧tu‧al‧i‧ty /ˌæktʃuˈæləti/ noun (plural actualities) formal 1 [countable usually plural]IN FACT facts, rather than things that people believe or imagine SYN realities the grim actualities of prison life2 REAL/NOT IMAGINARY[uncountable] the state of being real or really existing In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).
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actuality• Jane thinks that they will probably marry in actuality but that he can not love the vain, shallow woman.• I lived it twice now, once in anticipation, once in actuality.• It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town, though in actuality it might be only five or six.• In actuality, cheese making is preservation of a food by dehydration.• You should not confuse the 33 illusion of motion with its actuality.• Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time. 