Definition of reality noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

REALITY definition: 1. the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined to be: 2. a fact: 3…. Learn more.

You use reality to refer to real things or the real nature of things rather than imagined, invented, or theoretical ideas. Fiction and reality were increasingly blurred.

Reality is the state of everything as they exist, rather than how might they be imagined to be. Different cultures and academic disciplines conceptualize it in various ways.

1. the state or quality of being real. 2. resemblance to what is real. 3. a real thing or fact. 4. real things, facts, or events taken as a whole: reading fantasy books to escape from reality. 5. Philos. a. something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.

something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive. something that is real. something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent. in reality, in fact or truth; actually: brave in appearance, but in reality a coward.

Reality means that a thing certainly is; truth applies to the correctness of what is said or believed about the thing, the conformity of such report or belief to reality.

Noun reality (usually uncountable, plural realities) The state of being actual or real; realness.

REALITY definition: the state or quality of being real. See examples of reality used in a sentence.