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Facticity vs Factuality - What's the difference?

facticity | factuality |

As nouns the difference between facticity and factuality

is that facticity is the quality or state of being a fact while factuality is the state or quality of being factual.

facticity

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality or state of being a fact
  • The quality or state of being factitious (eg in existentialism)

    • factuality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being factual
  • That which is factual
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 7, author=Samuel G. Freedman, title=New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Just as fiction can limn truths beyond the grasp of factuality , Professor Nazemis' act of guerrilla theater, which he recounted last week in a telephone interview, attested to the exasperation of countless teachers and professors in the computer era. }}

    Related terms

    * factually