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reality television

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A genre of television programming portraying one or more people who are not professional actors and depicting their reactions to given stimuli or goals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: broadcasting, media, television

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Across languages

Translations

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تِلِفِزْيُون الْوَاقِع (tilifizyūn al-wāqiʕ) — television genre
  • Bulgarian: риа́лити телеви́зия (riáliti televízija) — television genre
  • Catalan: telerealitat — television genre
  • Chinese Mandarin: 真人秀 (zhēnrénxiù) — television genre
  • Dutch: reality-tv — television genre
  • Finnish: tositelevisio — television genre
  • Finnish: tosi-tv — television genre
  • French: téléréalité — television genre
  • Galician: telerrealidade — television genre
  • Georgian: რეალური ტელევიზია (realuri ṭelevizia) — television genre
  • German: Reality-TV — television genre
  • Greek: τηλεοπτική πραγματικότητα (tileoptikí pragmatikótita) — television genre
  • Hebrew: תוכנית מציאות — television genre
  • Hebrew: ריאליטי (re'áliti) — television genre
  • Hindi: वास्तविक टेलिविज़न (vāstavik ṭelivizan) — television genre
  • Hungarian: valóságshow — television genre
  • Japanese: リアリティ番組 (riariti bangumi) — television genre
  • Japanese: リアリティ・テレビ (riariti-terebi) — television genre
  • Korean: 리얼리티 텔레비전 (rieolliti tellebijeon) — television genre
  • Portuguese: televisão de realidade — television genre
  • Russian: реа́лити-телеви́дение (reáliti-televídenije) — television genre
  • Spanish: telerrealidad — television genre
  • Thai: เรียลลิตี้โชว์ (riial-lí-dtîi-choo) — television genre
  • Turkish: reality TV — television genre
  • Vietnamese: truyền hình thực tế — television genre