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Reality

noun

(pl. realities)

All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you. Synonym: world. "We live in different worlds" , "For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"

The state of being actual or real. Synonyms: realism, realness. Antonym: unreality.

The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be.

The quality possessed by something that is real. Antonym: unreality.

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"Reality" Quotes from Famous Books

... might be desired of me, yet with no conception of the reality, I followed after the orderly through the stockade gate, and across the small parade ground toward the more pretentious structure occupied by the ...

— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish

... slow—Welles again gives to Seward a lesson of good-behavior, of sound sense, and of mastery of international laws. The prize courts side with Welles. Because Neptune has a white wig and beard, he is considered slow, when in reality he is active, unflinching, ...

— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski

... not a fine Providence that gives us different things to love? In the purchase of my farm both Horace and I got the better of the bargain—and yet neither was cheated. In reality a fairly strong lantern light will shine through Horace, and I could see that he was hugging himself with the joy of his bargain; but I was content. I had some money left—what more does anyone want after a bargain?—and I had come into possession of the thing I desired most of all. Looking at bargains ...

— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson

... [19] In reality the numbers were even more in favor of the Commons: the representatives of the clergy were three hundred and eight, and those of the nobles two hundred and eighty-five, making only five hundred and ninety-three of the two superior orders, while the deputies of the Tiers- Etat were six hundred ...

— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge

... In reality he felt the benignant touch of fortune still upon his head, and thanked her heartily that Leo had taken the initiative; that no overt act of disloyalty blurred his escutcheon, and above all, that he had been spared the humiliation of acknowledging his inability to ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

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