| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | bottom line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indispensable content |
| Synonyms: | basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fact, resulting truth |
| Synonyms: | consequence, foregone conclusion, inevitable result, reality, sure thing, surety |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
| Antonyms: | concept, idea, theory |
| Main Entry: | deed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, adventure, ballgame, big idea, bit, byplay, cause, commission, crusade, do, enterprise, exploit, fact, feat, follow through, game, happenin', performance, plan, quest, reality, securing, stunt, thing*, tour de force, truth, winning |
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impact, impression |
| Synonyms: | action, clout, drift, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, enforcement, essence, execution, fact, force, implementation, import, imprint, influence, mark, meaning, power, purport, purpose, reality, sense, significance, strength, tenor, use, validity, vigor, weight |
| Notes: | as a noun, affect means 'a feeling or emotion,' whereas effect means 'the result or consequence of some action or process'; as a verb, to affect means 'to exert an influence upon,' and implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction, whereas to effect means 'to bring about as a result' effect is a noun referring to a thing, but if you mean an action, that is affect; if you want the verb meaning 'achieve, bring about,' that is effect |
| 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: | essence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, significance |
| Synonyms: | aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all, being, bottom, bottom line, burden, caliber, character, chief constituent, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, essentia, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, lifeblood, main idea, marrow, meaning, meat*, name of game, nature, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quiddity, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, virtuality |
| 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 |