realitas

See also: realitás

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin reālitās (compare Malay realiti).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /re.a.li.tas/, [rɛa̝li̽tˌɐs]
  • Rhymes: -itas, -tas, -as

Noun

realitas (plural realitas-realitas)

  1. reality; the state of being real
    Synonyms: kenyataan; (archaic) realitet; (Standard Malay) realiti
    Antonym: kemayaan
    • 2016, Ekawati Ekawati, Doni Setiyawan, quoting Prof. Dr. Dadang Sunendar, “Introduction”, in Hikayat Bayan Budiman (fiction), Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, →ISBN, page i:
      Karyan sastra tidak hanya rangkaian kata demi kita, tetapi berbicara tentang kehidupan, baik secara realitas ada maupun hanya dalam gagasan atau cita-cita manusia.
      Literary works are not only a series of words for our sake, but a conversation about life, both in reality as well as (that which exists) only in ideas or ambitions of humans.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

reālis (real) +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

Noun

reālitās f (genitive reālitātis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) reality
    • 1738, Christian Wolff, Theologia Naturālis, II, §5:
      Reālitātis nōmine hic nōbīs venit quidquid entī alicui vērē inesse intelligitur, nōn vērō perperceptiōnēs nostrās cōnfūsās inesse vidētur.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      The name of Reality comes to us here as whatever is understood to be truly in some being, and is seen to not be in the confusion of our perceptions at all.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative reālitās reālitātēs
genitive reālitātis reālitātum
dative reālitātī reālitātibus
accusative reālitātem reālitātēs
ablative reālitāte reālitātibus
vocative reālitās reālitātēs

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