realities
How things are
Realities is the plural of reality, referring to multiple instances of the state of things as they actually exist.
It often appears in contexts distinguishing what is true from what is imagined or desired: We must face the harsh realities of the situation.
The plural form emphasizes that different domains—economic realities, political realities, everyday realities—each present their own set of facts and conditions to be reckoned with.
State of existing fact
- beingExisting as something
- existenceState of being real
- lifeAnimate state
- presenceState of being somewhere
materiality · tangibility · corporeality · concreteness · phenomenon · manifestation · substance · physicality
Facts supporting truth
- dataFacts for analysis
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- informationKnowledge about something
- proofDemonstration of truth
documentation · empirical · objective · factual · substantiation · verification · accuracy · hard facts
Truthfulness, sincerity
- veracityConformity to fact
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- genuinenessQuality of being real
- sincerityHonest, unfeigned genuineness
integrity · transparency · home truths · candor · unvarnished · sobering · stark · inescapable
Occur in succession
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- multipleConsisting of many parts
- virtualExisting in effect, not fact
- simulatedMade to imitate reality
augmented · constructed · subjective · perceived · competing · overlapping · shared · social
actuality
State of existing fact
presence · materiality · tangibility · corporeality · concreteness · phenomenon · manifestation · substance · physicality · lived experience
evidence
Facts supporting truth
- dataFacts for analysis
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- informationKnowledge about something
proof · documentation · empirical · objective · factual · substantiation · verification · accuracy · hard facts · ground truth
honesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
- veracityConformity to fact
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- genuinenessQuality of being real
sincerity · integrity · transparency · home truths · candor · unvarnished · sobering · stark · inescapable · undeniable
alternate
Occur in succession
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- multipleConsisting of many parts
- virtualExisting in effect, not fact
simulated · augmented · constructed · subjective · perceived · competing · overlapping · shared · social · cultural
- existenceexistence, being, lives, life, actuality
- truthstruth, truths, facts, fact, verity
- requirementsrequirement, requirements, prerequisite, requisite, requisites
realitiesfantasies
Imagined scenarios, often pleasurable
illusions · delusions · dreams · fictions · hallucinations
realitiestheories
Explanations based on evidence
hypotheses · speculations · conjectures · suppositions · assumptions
realitiesfakes
Fraudulent imitations
counterfeits · simulations · fabrications · pretenses · shams
- alternate realitiesHypothetical divergent existences
- alternative realitiesOther possible versions of existence
- virtual realitiesComputer-simulated immersive environments
- augmented realitiesDigital additions to perception
real, reality, realistic, realization, surreal, realism, realist, unreality, realistically