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==Etymology and meaning== The word ''reality'' is a borrowing from the [[Middle French]] ''realité'' and the [[Latin#Renaissance_and_Neo-Latin|post-Classical Latin]] ''realitas''. According to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', it first appeared in English in 1513. The first definition given is "Real existence; what is real rather than imagined or desired; the aggregate of real things or existences; that which underlies and is the truth of appearances or phenomena". (A second sense, now obsolete, refers to [[real property]].)<ref>{{cite book |last1=OED staff |title=Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/reality_n?tab=meaning_and_use#26850773 |access-date=4 April 2025 |chapter=Reality (noun)}}</ref>
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