Regalia vs Realia - What's the difference?
regalia | realia |
royal rights, prerogatives and privileges - actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etcetera)
the emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre, sword of justice
* '>citation
decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry
finery or magnificent dress
(obsolete) Sumptuous food; delicacies.
(archaic) A kind of large cigar of superior quality.
* 1840 , Isaac Butt, Irish Life (page 294)
* 1850 , United States. Congress, Congressional Edition: Volume 552 (page 868)
Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 28:
*:It might be possible, for example, to work backwards from the known realia of Visigothic Spain.
As nouns the difference between regalia and realia
is that regalia is royal rights, prerogatives and privileges - actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etcetera while realia is objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.regalia
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- (Cotton)
Noun
(en noun)- I have taken care that there's both brandy and whiskey nicely stowed away in the barrack-room, with plenty of prime regalia cigars
- The quantity of regalias imported into northern ports is comparatively small.
