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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
| Synonyms: | achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is |
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nature of a being |
| Synonyms: | actuality, essence, existence, integral, integrate, quiddity, quintessence, reality, subsistence, substance, sum, system, totality |
| Antonyms: | abstract |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, hand one is dealt, individuality, journey, lifing, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race, real world, reality, something, subsistence, survival, the big game, world |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verifiable truth; reality |
| Synonyms: | actuality, appearance, authenticity, basis, bottom line, brass tacks, case, certainty, certitude, concrete happening, dope*, evidence, experience, genuineness, gospel, gospel truth, how it is, intelligence, law, like it is, matter*, naked truth, palpability, permanence, scene, scripture, solidity, stability, substantiality, verity, what's what |
| Antonyms: | fabrication, lie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, datum, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, statistic, transaction, truism |
| Antonyms: | lie |
| Main Entry: | gospel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fact, doctrine |
| Synonyms: | actuality, authority, belief, certainty, credo, creed, dogma, faith, last word, scripture, testament, truism, truth, veracity, verity |
| Antonyms: | hypothesis, theory |
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, one for the books, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rara avis, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
| Antonyms: | belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
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