reality

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈælɪti/
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• General-American: /ɹiˈæləti/
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• rhymes with -ælɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: R IY2 AE1 L AH0 T IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh1-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh1ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor. French réalitéder. English reality From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.

252 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: realitet — state of being actual or real
• Amharic: እውነት (ʾəwnät) — state of being actual or real
• Arabic: وَاقِع (wāqiʕ) — state of being actual or real
• Arabic: حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa) — state of being actual or real
• Arabic: وَاقِعِيَّة (wāqiʕiyya) — state of being actual or real
• Arabic: حقيقة (ḥagīga) — state of being actual or real
• Arabic: واقع (wāqiʕ) — state of being actual or real
• Armenian: իրականություն (irakanutʻyun) — state of being actual or real
• Assamese: দিঠক (dithok) — state of being actual or real
• Azerbaijani: gerçəklik — state of being actual or real
• Azerbaijani: reallıq — state of being actual or real
• Azerbaijani: həqiqət — state of being actual or real
• Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl) — state of being actual or real
• Bashkir: ысынбарлыҡ (ısınbarlıq) — state of being actual or real
• Bashkir: хәҡиҡәт (xəqiqət) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэа́льнасць (reálʹnascʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэа́льнасьць (reálʹnasʹcʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэчаві́стасць (rečavístascʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэчаві́стасьць (rečavístasʹcʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэчаі́снасць (rečaísnascʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: рэчаі́снасьць (rečaísnasʹcʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: сапра́ўднасць (sapráwdnascʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Belarusian: сапра́ўднасьць (sapráwdnasʹcʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Bengali: হকিকত (hokikot) — state of being actual or real
• Bengali: সাচ্চাই (śaccai) — state of being actual or real
• Bulgarian: действи́телност (dejstvítelnost) — state of being actual or real
• Bulgarian: реа́лност (reálnost) — state of being actual or real
• Catalan: realitat — state of being actual or real
• Chinese Cantonese: 現實 /现实 (jin6 sat6) — state of being actual or real
• Chinese Cantonese: 實在 /实在 (sat6 zoi6) — state of being actual or real
• Chinese Mandarin: 現實 /现实 (xiànshí) — state of being actual or real
• Chinese Mandarin: 實在 /实在 (shízài) — state of being actual or real
• Czech: skutečnost — state of being actual or real
• Czech: realita — state of being actual or real
• Danish: virkelighed — state of being actual or real
• Dutch: werkelijkheid — state of being actual or real
• Dutch: realiteit — state of being actual or real
• East Frisian Low German: würrelkkaid — state of being actual or real
• Esperanto: realeco — state of being actual or real
• Estonian: tegelikkus — state of being actual or real
• Estonian: reaalsus — state of being actual or real
• Faroese: veruleiki — state of being actual or real
• Finnish: olemassaolo — state of being actual or real
• French: réalité — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: würtelkhaid — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: wirklikhait — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: (Langenhorn) wörklihaid — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: (Ockholm) wirklihaid — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: würelkhaid — state of being actual or real
• North Frisian: Würklichhair — state of being actual or real
• Saterland Frisian: Wuddelkhaied — state of being actual or real
• West-Frisian: werklikheid — state of being actual or real
• West-Frisian: wierheid — state of being actual or real
• West-Frisian: realiteit — state of being actual or real
• Galician: realidade — state of being actual or real
• Georgian: სინამდვილე (sinamdvile) — state of being actual or real
• Georgian: რეალობა (realoba) — state of being actual or real
• German: Wirklichkeit — state of being actual or real
• German: Realität — state of being actual or real
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (pragmatikótita) — state of being actual or real
• Hebrew: מְצִיאוּת (metzi'út) — state of being actual or real
• Hebrew: ממשות (mamashút) — state of being actual or real
• Hindi: सच्चाई (saccāī) — state of being actual or real
• Hindi: यथार्थ (yathārth) — state of being actual or real
• Hindi: वास्तविकता (vāstaviktā) — state of being actual or real
• Hindi: हक़ीक़त (haqīqat) — state of being actual or real
• Hungarian: valódiság — state of being actual or real
• Hungarian: tényszerűség — state of being actual or real
• Icelandic: veruleiki — state of being actual or real
• Icelandic: raunveruleiki — state of being actual or real
• Indonesian: realitas — state of being actual or real
• Indonesian: kenyataan — state of being actual or real
• Irish: nithiúlacht — state of being actual or real
• Irish: réadúlacht — state of being actual or real
• Italian: realtà — state of being actual or real
• Japanese: 実在 (jitsuzai) — state of being actual or real
• Japanese: 現実 (genjitsu) — state of being actual or real
• Kazakh: нақтылық (naqtylyq) — state of being actual or real
• Kazakh: шындық (şyndyq) — state of being actual or real
• Kazakh: ақиқат (aqiqat) — state of being actual or real
• Khmer: ការពិត (kaa pɨt) — state of being actual or real
• Korean: 현실 (hyeonsil) — state of being actual or real
• Korean: 실재 (siljae) — state of being actual or real
• Kyrgyz: чындык (cındık) — state of being actual or real
• Kyrgyz: акыйкат (akıykat) — state of being actual or real
• Lao: ຄວາມເປັນຈິງ (khuām pen ching) — state of being actual or real
• Latin: natura — state of being actual or real
• Latin: eventus — state of being actual or real
• Latin: veritas — state of being actual or real
• Latvian: īstenība — state of being actual or real
• Latvian: realitāte — state of being actual or real
• Latvian: reālums — state of being actual or real
• Latvian: reālība — state of being actual or real
• Lithuanian: tikrovė — state of being actual or real
• Lithuanian: realybė — state of being actual or real
• Luxembourgish: Realitéit — state of being actual or real
• Macedonian: реалност (realnost) — state of being actual or real
• Macedonian: стварност (stvarnost) — state of being actual or real
• Malay: realiti — state of being actual or real
• Malay: kenyataan — state of being actual or real
• Malay: hakikat — state of being actual or real
• Malay: fakta — state of being actual or real
• Malayalam: യാഥാർത്ഥ്യം (yāthāṟtthyaṁ) — state of being actual or real
• Norwegian Bokmål: virkelighet — state of being actual or real
• Church Slavic: вещьство (veštĭstvo) — state of being actual or real
• Pashto: واقعيت (wāqe'yát) — state of being actual or real
• Pashto: حقيقت (haqiqat) — state of being actual or real
• Pashto: ريښتيا (rix̌tyā) — state of being actual or real
• Dari: وَاقِعِیَّت (wāqi'iyyat) — state of being actual or real
• Dari: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat) — state of being actual or real
• Iranian Persian: واقِعِیَت (vâġe'iyat) — state of being actual or real
• Iranian Persian: حَقیقَت (haġiġat) — state of being actual or real
• Polish: rzeczywistość — state of being actual or real
• Polish: realność — state of being actual or real
• Portuguese: realidade — state of being actual or real
• Romanian: realitate — state of being actual or real
• Russian: реа́льность (reálʹnostʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Russian: действи́тельность (dejstvítelʹnostʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Russian: веще́ственность (veščéstvennostʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Russian: явь (javʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Sardinian: realidade — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: стварност — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: реалност — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: јава — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: stvarnost — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: realnost — state of being actual or real
• Serbo-Croatian: java — state of being actual or real
• Slovak: skutočnosť — state of being actual or real
• Slovak: realita — state of being actual or real
• Slovene: resničnost — state of being actual or real
• Slovene: realnost — state of being actual or real
• Spanish: realidad — state of being actual or real
• Swedish: verklighet — state of being actual or real
• Swedish: realism — state of being actual or real
• Tajik: хақиқат (xaqiqat) — state of being actual or real
• Tajik: воқеият (voqeyiyat) — state of being actual or real
• Tamil: மெய் (mey) — state of being actual or real
• Tatar: чынбарлык (çınbarlıq) — state of being actual or real
• Tatar: хакыйкать (xaqıyqät) — state of being actual or real
• Thai: ความเป็นจริง (kwaam-bpen-jing) — state of being actual or real
• Turkish: gerçeklik — state of being actual or real
• Turkish: realite — state of being actual or real
• Turkish: hakikat — state of being actual or real
• Ottoman Turkish: حقیقت (hakikat) — state of being actual or real
• Ottoman Turkish: كرچك (gerçek) — state of being actual or real
• Turkmen: hakykat — state of being actual or real
• Ukrainian: реа́льність (reálʹnistʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Ukrainian: ді́йсність (díjsnistʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Ukrainian: спра́вжність (správžnistʹ) — state of being actual or real
• Ukrainian: я́ва (jáva) — state of being actual or real
• Ukrainian: ява́ (javá) — state of being actual or real
• Urdu: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat) — state of being actual or real
• Uyghur: رېئاللىق (rë'alliq) — state of being actual or real
• Uyghur: ھەقىقەت (heqiqet) — state of being actual or real
• Uzbek: reallik — state of being actual or real
• Uzbek: voqelik — state of being actual or real
• Uzbek: haqiqat — state of being actual or real
• Vietnamese: thực tại — state of being actual or real
• Vietnamese: thực tế — state of being actual or real
• Vietnamese: hiện thực — state of being actual or real
• Armenian: իրողություն (iroġutʻyun) — a real entity, event etc.
• Catalan: realitat — a real entity, event etc.
• Danish: realitet — a real entity, event etc.
• Dutch: feitelijkheid — a real entity, event etc.
• Dutch: realiteit — a real entity, event etc.
• Esperanto: realaĵo — a real entity, event etc.
• French: vérité — a real entity, event etc.
• Georgian: რეალობა (realoba) — a real entity, event etc.
• German: Realität — a real entity, event etc.
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (pragmatikótita) — a real entity, event etc.
• Hindi: वास्तविक (vāstavik) — a real entity, event etc.
• Hungarian: realitás — a real entity, event etc.
• Hungarian: tény — a real entity, event etc.
• Khmer: ការពិត (kaa pɨt) — a real entity, event etc.
• Malayalam: പരമാർത്ഥത (paramāṟtthata) — a real entity, event etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: realitet — a real entity, event etc.
• Norwegian Nynorsk: realitet — a real entity, event etc.
• Polish: rzeczywistość — a real entity, event etc.
• Portuguese: realidade — a real entity, event etc.
• Romanian: realitate — a real entity, event etc.
• Spanish: realidad — a real entity, event etc.
• Swedish: realitet — a real entity, event etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: حقیقت (hakikat) — a real entity, event etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: كرچك (gerçek) — a real entity, event etc.
• Afrikaans: realiteit — entirety of all that is real
• Arabic: وَاقِع (wāqiʕ) — entirety of all that is real
• Armenian: իրական (irakan) — entirety of all that is real
• Bashkir: ысынбарлыҡ (ısınbarlıq) — entirety of all that is real
• Belarusian: рэа́льнасць (reálʹnascʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Belarusian: рэчаі́снасць (rečaísnascʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Belarusian: рэчаві́стасць (rečavístascʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Bulgarian: реа́лност (reálnost) — entirety of all that is real
• Bulgarian: действи́телност (dejstvítelnost) — entirety of all that is real
• Catalan: realitat — entirety of all that is real
• Chinese Mandarin: 現實 /现实 (xiànshí) — entirety of all that is real
• Czech: skutečnost — entirety of all that is real
• Danish: virkelighed — entirety of all that is real
• Dutch: de werkelijkheid — entirety of all that is real
• Dutch: de realiteit — entirety of all that is real
• Esperanto: realo — entirety of all that is real
• Finnish: todellisuus — entirety of all that is real
• French: réalité — entirety of all that is real
• Galician: realidade — entirety of all that is real
• Georgian: რეალობა (realoba) — entirety of all that is real
• Georgian: სინამდვილე (sinamdvile) — entirety of all that is real
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (pragmatikótita) — entirety of all that is real
• Hindi: वास्तविकता (vāstaviktā) — entirety of all that is real
• Hungarian: valóság — entirety of all that is real
• Indonesian: realitas — entirety of all that is real
• Indonesian: kenyataan — entirety of all that is real
• Japanese: 現実 (genjitsu) — entirety of all that is real
• Korean: 현실 (hyeonsil) — entirety of all that is real
• Latvian: īstenība — entirety of all that is real
• Latvian: realitāte — entirety of all that is real
• Latvian: reālība — entirety of all that is real
• Malay: realiti — entirety of all that is real
• Malay: kenyataan — entirety of all that is real
• Norwegian Bokmål: virkelighet — entirety of all that is real
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røynd — entirety of all that is real
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røyndom — entirety of all that is real
• Norwegian Nynorsk: verkelegheit — entirety of all that is real
• Polish: rzeczywistość — entirety of all that is real
• Polish: jawa — entirety of all that is real
• Portuguese: realidade — entirety of all that is real
• Russian: реа́льность (reálʹnostʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Russian: действи́тельность (dejstvítelʹnostʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Spanish: realidad — entirety of all that is real
• Swedish: verklighet — entirety of all that is real
• Ukrainian: реа́льність (reálʹnistʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Ukrainian: ді́йсність (díjsnistʹ) — entirety of all that is real
• Yiddish: וואָר (vor) — entirety of all that is real
• Afrikaans: realiteit — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Bashkir: ысынбарлыҡ (ısınbarlıq) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Catalan: realitat — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Danish: virkelighed — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Dutch: werkelijkheid — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Dutch: realiteit — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Finnish: todellisuus — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Georgian: რეალობა (realoba) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Georgian: სინამდვილე (sinamdvile) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• German: Realität — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Greek: πραγματικότητα (pragmatikótita) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Japanese: 現実 (genjitsu) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Latvian: realitāte — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Polish: rzeczywistość — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Portuguese: realidade — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Romanian: realitate — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Russian: реа́льность (reálʹnostʹ) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Russian: действи́тельность (dejstvítelʹnostʹ) — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Spanish: realidad — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Swedish: verklighet — an individual observer's subjective perception
• Turkish: realite — an individual observer's subjective perception