| Main Entry: | real world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | things as they are |
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actuality, here and now, natural world, physical world, world of nature |
| Main Entry: | actuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
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achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
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actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, hand one is dealt, individuality, journey, lifing, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race, real world, reality, something, subsistence, survival, the big game, world |
Antonyms: |
death, inanimateness |
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
Synonyms: |
absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
Antonyms: |
belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
| Main Entry: | here and now |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | present time |
Synonyms: |
actuality, hic et nunc, immediately, present moment, real world, reality |
| Concept: | Existence. |
| Category: | 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality; positiveness; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence., presence (existence in space); coexistence., stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream; no joke., center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle [science of existence], ontology.
-verbs
exist, be; have being; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur (event); have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate., consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by., come into existence; arise (begin); come forth (appear)., become (be converted); bring into existence., abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
-adjectives
existing existent, under the sun; in existence; extant; afloat, afoot, current, prevalent; undestroyed., real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential., well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential; authentic.
-adverbs
actually; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto.
-phrases
ens rationis; ergo sum cogito ["I think therefore I am" (Latin)]; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?" [Byron].
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Antonyms: |
inexistence |
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