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facticity

[ fak-tis-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of facticity1

1940–45; fact + -icity ( -ic + -ity ), perhaps after authenticity
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Example Sentences

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Perhaps most significantly, "Midas Man" serves as a cautionary tale of sorts about the urgent need for facticity in contemporary cinema.

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The American legal system, indeed any legal system, is a search for truth, facticity, conclusion, and resolution.

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She said Psaki had a “facticity to her work that is characteristic of good press secretaries and it presupposes confidence. It presupposes access to the president. It presupposes an understanding of what the administration’s position is that proves to be true.”

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Because no institution of facticity can contain them.

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It was, for them, in the words of Daryn Lehoux, an example of ‘unproblematic facticity’.

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