actuality
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌækt͡ʃuˈælɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
actuality (countable and uncountable, plural actualities)
- The state of existing; existence.
- An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.
- (television) Live reporting on current affairs.
- 1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:
- A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.
- 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:
- This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.
- (historical, film) A short early motion picture.
- 1999, “The Variety Stage collection”, in Selected Materials from the Library of Congress[1]:
- By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two.
Derived terms
Translations
the state of existing
the quality of being actual or factual
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