Actuality | Mean of actuality in English Dictionary

/ˌæktʃəˈwæləti/

• Noun
• the quality or state of being actual or real
1. It was hard to accept the actuality [=reality] of the disease.
• something that is actual or real
1. the actualities [=realities] of war
2. The actuality was quite different from the theory.
• in truth
1. He gave me what turned out to be, in actuality [=in reality, in fact], only a copy of the original.
2. I thought they just arrived, but in actuality they'd been here for an hour.