reality

About 67.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun The real world.
3. noun A real entity, event, or other fact.

   The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.

4. noun The entirety of all that is real.
5. noun An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
6. noun Loyalty; devotion.
7. noun Realty; real estate.
8. noun Reality television.

   a foray into reality programming

Similar words

realness realism world fact actuality realistic true actual concrete truth

Often followed by

of and is in that to as the which

Word family

realities reality TV reality TV/television reality show reality shows reality television