Noun

The state of being certain.

* Fisher Ames

The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.

An instance of being certain.

A fact or truth unquestionably established.

* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties .

* 1824 , (Walter Savage Landor), Imaginary Conversations Volume 1

Certainties are uninteresting and sating.

Noun

(en-noun)

The state of being actual or real.

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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality : we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today

A real entity, event or other fact.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:And to realities yield all her shows.

*(James Beattie) (1735-1803)

*:My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.

The entirety of all that is real.

An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

(lb) Loyalty; devotion.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:To express our reality to the emperor.

Realty; real estate.