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REALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does realness mean? 

REALNESS (noun)
  The noun REALNESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being actual or realplay

  Familiarity information: REALNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REALNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being actual or real

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

realism; reality; realness

Context example:

the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him

Hypernyms ("realness" is a kind of...):

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

Attribute:

existent; real (being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory)

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realness"):

fact (an event known to have happened or something known to have existed)

Derivation:

real (coinciding with reality)

real (not to be taken lightly)

real (being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something)


 Context examples 


"What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor with one's own hands, the primitiveness of it, the realness."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)



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