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FACTUALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does factualness mean?
• FACTUALNESS (noun)
The noun FACTUALNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being actual or based on fact
Familiarity information: FACTUALNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being actual or based on fact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
factuality; factualness
Context example:
the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination
Hypernyms ("factualness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
factual (existing in act or fact)
factual (of or relating to or characterized by facts)
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