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  • noun Factuality.

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  • noun the quality of being actual or based on fact

Etymologies

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factual +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The debates about the factualness of evolutionism/Creationism are really irrelevant.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • Meaningfulness and factualness are not one and the same thing.

    Russ Wellen: Justifications for Torture: You've Heard the Rest, Now Here's the Best 2009

  • Such a transparency, real, factual, immediately entering into consciousness, of all relations is only possible where commodity economy has ceased to exist with equal reality, factualness, immediacy.

    The Transformation of the World-Robert Chasse 2009

  • Such a transparency, real, factual, immediately entering into consciousness, of all relations is only possible where commodity economy has ceased to exist with equal reality, factualness, immediacy.

    2009 June 2009

  • The essential functions of journalism – reporting, watching, sharing, answering, explaining – and its verities – factualness, completeness, fairness, timeliness, relevance – are eternal, but the means of performing them are multiplying magnificently.

    A scenario for news « BuzzMachine 2008

  • The essential functions of journalism - reporting, watching, sharing, answering, explaining - and its verities - factualness, completeness, fairness, timeliness, relevance - are eternal, but the means of performing them are multiplying magnificently.

    Jeff Jarvis: A Scenario for the Future of News 2008

  • The essential functions of journalism – reporting, watching, sharing, answering, explaining – and its verities – factualness, completeness, fairness, timeliness, relevance – are eternal, but the means of performing them are multiplying magnificently.

    November « 2008 « BuzzMachine 2008

  • The essential functions of journalism – reporting, watching, sharing, answering, explaining – and its verities – factualness, completeness, fairness, timeliness, relevance – are eternal, but the means of performing them are multiplying magnificently.

    The new news mindset « BuzzMachine 2008

  • Back in 2003, for instance, the Minneapolis Star Tribune had questioned the book's factualness.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2006

  • So it would not only be the factualness of the literal words, but it could be accompanied by analysis leading to the real meaning and often intent.

    Plan of Attack Bob Woodward 2004

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