realityとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈælɪti/, /ɹiˈæləti/
• 韻: -ælɪti

名詞

reality (usually uncountable, 複数形 realities)

1. The state of being actual or real.

   The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.

   • (Can we date this quote by Joseph Addison かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:

     As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

2. A real entity, event or other fact.

   The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     And to realities yield all her shows.

   • (Can we date this quote by James Beattie かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.

   • 2005 October 25, European Court of Human Rights, Wypych v. Poland‎^[1], number 2428/05:

     Given the economic realities of contemporary Poland, a requirement to provide information on movable assets which exceed PLN 10,000 in value cannot be held to be excessive.

3. The entirety of all that is real.
4. An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
5. (obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Fuller かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     To express our reality to the emperor.

6. (law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.

同意語

• truth
• actuality

反意語

• fantasy

派生語

関連する語

使用する際の注意点

Adjectives that collocate with reality include: harsh; stark; brutal; grim; bitter

Further reading

• reality on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• irately, tearily