English noun: reality | |||
1. | reality (cognition) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | ||
Samples | His world was shattered. We live in different worlds. For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were. | ||
Synonyms | world | ||
Broader (hypernym) | experience | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | real life, real world | ||
2. | reality (state) the state of being actual or real | ||
Samples | The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him. | ||
Synonyms | realism, realness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | actuality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | fact | ||
Attribute | existent, real, unreal | ||
Antonyms | irreality, unreality | ||
3. | reality (state) the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be | ||
Samples | Businessmen have to face harsh realities. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | actuality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | historicalness | ||
4. | reality (attribute) the quality possessed by something that is real | ||
Broader (hypernym) | corporality, corporeality, materiality, physicalness | ||
Antonyms | unreality | ||