reality
n.
state of being real; real thing or fact; actuality
Reality
reality
Noun
1. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
(synonym) world
(hypernym) experience
(hyponym) real world, real life
2. the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him"
(synonym) realness, realism
(antonym) unreality, irreality
(hypernym) actuality
(hyponym) fact
(attribute) real, existent
3. the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities"
(hypernym) actuality
(hyponym) historicalness
4. the quality possessed by something that is real
(antonym) unreality
(hypernym) materiality, physicalness, corporeality
Reality
(n.)
The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
(n.)
That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
(n.)
See 2d Realty, 2.
(n.)
Loyalty; devotion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Reality
Reality Words such as reality, truth, and good are understood in reference to their opposites; and the opposite of reality is appearance or illusion. There can be but one fundamental or all-pervading reality, and the word in this sense becomes an equivalent to the one All, parabrahman, by contrast with which all else is maya or appearance. Reality when implying various conceptions is therefore a relative term, and we can but say that one thing is real by comparison with another thing which is relatively unreal. A dream seems real enough until we awake, and then our waking mind seems real; yet this also will seem unreal when we awake to a still higher consciousness. Reality, like truth and unity, cannot be an object of knowledge except by intuition, which then functions on its own plane; for any mental faculty beneath intuition is itself relatively unreal, and its findings or deductions partake of the nature of their source; and all such deductions are understandable only by reference to their opposites. It is precisely this existence in nature of opposites which brings about the various mayas under which human understanding necessarily labors.