🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

realidad

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ray-al-i-dad

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Reality/riˈæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #350 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La realidad a menudo supera la ficción."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or be thought to be.

    "In reality, the project was much more complicated than we initially anticipated."
  2. 2

    A thing that is actually experienced or seen.

    "The realities of life in the city can be quite different from what is portrayed in movies."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin realitas, based on the Latin word realis meaning 'actual', which itself stems from res meaning 'thing'. It entered the English language in the late 16th century, initially denoting the quality of being real, later expanding to encompass the totality of all things that are real.

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