factualness

1. 1.

   the quality of being actual or based on fact

   “the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination”

   Synonymsfactuality

   Broaderquality

Other forms of factualness

plural

factualnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about factualness

What does factualness mean?

factualness means "the quality of being actual or based on fact".

How many syllables are in factualness?

factualness has 4 syllables: fac-tu-al-ness. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for factualness?

Close synonyms include factuality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is factualness a common word?

factualness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.