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reality - 20 thesaurus results
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | actuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
| Synonyms: | achievement, attainment, brass tacks*, fact, real world*, reality, substance, truth, actualization, materiality, materialization, straight stuff, substantiality, what it is |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bottom line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indispensable content |
| Synonyms: | basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, individuality, journey, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race*, real world*, reality, something, subsistence, survival, world, hand one is dealt, lifing, the big game |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inside information |
| Synonyms: | bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, clue, cue, data, details, dope*, gospel, reality, scoop*, score*, story, info, inside dope, like it is, lowdown, numbers, poop, whole story |
| Antonyms: | lies |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fait accompli |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accomplished fact |
| Synonyms: | accomplished fact, certainty, reality, a truth, cold hard facts, done deal, done deed, fact of life, grim reality, hard facts, irreversible accomplishment, irreversible act, irreversible truth, matter of fact, self-evident fact, undeniable fact |
| Main Entry: | nitty-gritty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basic facts |
| Synonyms: | basics, bottom line*, bottom line, brass tacks, core, essence, focus, fundamentals, gist, heart, kernel, meat, meat and potatoes, name of the game, nuts and bolts*, nuts and bolts, quintessence, reality, root, soul, substance, chief part, chief thing, cold fact, essential details, essential part, hard fact, heart of the matter, important matter, the facts, the facts, the name of the game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | here and now |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | present time |
| Synonyms: | actuality, immediately, real world, reality, hic et nunc, present moment |
| Main Entry: | realism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authenticity |
| Synonyms: | reality, truth, verisimilitude, verity, naturalness, verism |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | deed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, adventure, ballgame, big idea, bit, byplay, cause, commission, crusade, do, enterprise, exploit, fact, feat, follow through, game, happenin', performance, plan, quest, reality, securing, stunt, thing*, tour de force, truth, winning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | essence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, significance |
| Synonyms: | aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all*, being, bottom, bottom line*, burden, caliber, character, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, marrow, meaning, meat*, nature, nitty-gritty*, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, chief constituent, essentia, essentiality, lifeblood, main idea, name of game, quiddity, virtuality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | object |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thing able to be seen/felt/perceived |
| Synonyms: | article, body, bulk, commodity, doodad*, doohickey*, entity, fact, gadget, gizmo*, item, mass, matter, phenomenon, reality, something, substance, thingamajig*, volume, widget*, whatchamacallit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity, element |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing, concreteness |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fact, resulting truth |
| Synonyms: | consequence, foregone conclusion, reality, sure thing*, surety, inevitable result |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
| Antonyms: | concept, idea, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impact, impression |
| Synonyms: | action, clout, drift, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, enforcement, essence, execution, fact, force, import, imprint, influence, mark, meaning, power, purport, purpose, reality, sense, significance, strength, tenor, use, validity, vigor, weight, implementation |
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nature of a being |
| Synonyms: | actuality, essence, existence, integral, integrate, quintessence, reality, subsistence, substance, sum, system, totality, quiddity |
| Antonyms: | abstract |
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