the state or quality of being real.

resemblance to what is real.

a real thing or fact.

real things, facts, or events taken as a whole; state of affairs

the reality of the business world; vacationing to escape reality.

Philosophy .

something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.

something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive.

something that is real.

something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent. ?

in reality

in fact or truth; actually

brave in appearance, but in reality a coward.

noun

belief , fantasy , hypothesis , imagination , theory , phantasm , phantom , simulation , unreality

noun

absoluteness , actuality , authenticity , being , bottom line * , brass tacks * , certainty , concreteness , corporeality , deed , entity , existence , genuineness , how things are , like it is , materiality , matter , name of the game * , nuts and bolts * , object , palpability , perceptibility , phenomenon , presence , realism , realness , real world * , sensibility , solidity , substance , substantiality , substantive , tangibility , truth , validity , verisimilitude , verity , way of it , what’s what , fact , factuality , factualness , event