actuality

realidad

Lo que es verdad o sucede realmente, frente a las apariencias o la imaginación.

En inglés sencillo: What is really true or happens, rather than what seems true or is imagined.

• In actuality, the house was empty.
• The job sounded easy but was difficult in actuality.
• What seemed like a mistake was, in actuality, a clever choice.

Sinónimos: reality, fact

Antónimos: fantasy

Expresiones frecuentes: in actuality, dream into actuality

realidades, hechos

Hechos y condiciones reales de una situación, frente a lo que la gente imagina.

En inglés sencillo: The real facts or conditions of a situation, rather than what people imagine.

• The actualities of war shocked him.
• She described the daily actualities of caring for her father.
• Their plan ignored the practical actualities of running a business.

Cómo se usa: the actualities of something (The report describes the actualities of farm life.)

Sinónimos: realities, facts

Expresiones frecuentes: the harsh actuality, face the actuality

existencia

El hecho de existir realmente y no ser solo una posibilidad.

En inglés sencillo: The state of really existing, rather than only being possible.

• The idea had no physical actuality.
• They debated the actuality of the imagined world.
• The philosopher distinguished possibility from actuality.

Sinónimos: existence

Antónimos: nonexistence

Expresiones frecuentes: physical actuality, bring into actuality