realities

Noun

reality (usually uncountable, plural realities)

1. (usually) The state of being actual or real; realness.
   • The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
2. (usually) The real world.
   • A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.1712 February 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, February 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 291; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The...
3. (usually) A real entity, event, or other fact.
   • The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
4. (usually) The entirety of all that is real.
   • Across the entire Universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every...2008 July 5, Russell T Davies, “Journey's End”, in Graeme Harper, director, Doctor Who, season 4 [30], episode 13, spoken by Davros (Julian Bleach)
5. (usually) An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
6. (obsolete, usually) Loyalty; devotion.
   • To express our reality to the emperor.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

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