factuality

noun

Definition of factualitynext
1
as in truth
agreement with fact or reality some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation

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2
as in reality
the quality of being actual although this account of the scheme seems like it must be fiction, its very factuality makes it all the more fascinating

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  1. truth
  2. reality
  3. accuracy
  4. fact
  5. facticity
Noun
  • Some policing experts say that, properly used, the method can elicit truth from criminals who are lying.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There actually seems to be some truth to that adage, research suggests.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of truth
Noun
  • Virtually all of them, even the most entertaining and quirky ones, suggested an underlying preoccupation with the power of narrative to shape our sense of reality.
    Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The brutal reality, however, is that both sides are using drones more intensely and more effectively as this war grinds on.
    Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of reality
Noun
  • Today’s difficulty The difficulty score is an average rating from our testers, who play the game in advance to check for quality and accuracy.
    Mark Cooper, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, a scholar at West Point, assessing the Israeli programs, observed that more information could make for greater accuracy.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of accuracy
Noun
  • Fun fact: According to reports, Jonah Hill was the one who sold the residence to Gomez in the first place.
    Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The disparity could also be explained by the fact that two of the 10 states that have yet to expand Medicaid—Texas and Florida—have enormous Latino populations, according to Betancourt.
    Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of fact
Noun
  • Caruth’s determination to cleave simultaneously to the idea both that the traumatic memory is the only historic fact the individual possesses and that this facticity remains incapable of adequate representation is paradoxical bordering on the perverse.
    Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • This new discipline borrowed features from philology and belles lettres—period specialization and close reading, respectively—but abjured their emphasis on facticity and appreciation in favor of a new goal: interpretation.
    Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
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“Factuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factuality. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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