Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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reality

UK /ɹiːˈælɪti/ · US /ɹiˈæləti/ noun, proper noun

Forms realities

  1. noun The state of being actual or real; realness. “The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.”
  2. noun The real world.
  3. noun A real entity, event, or other fact. “The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.”
  4. noun The entirety of all that is real.
  5. noun An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
  6. noun (obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
  7. noun (law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.
  8. noun (broadcasting, attributive) Reality television. “a foray into reality programming”
  9. proper noun A female given name from English.

Synonyms

truth actuality world realness realism

Antonyms

fantasy unreality

Etymology

From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin reālitās, from Late Latin reālis (“real”), equivalent to real + -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647. First attested in c. 1540.

From reality.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
  2. noun That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

Etymology [Cf. F. réalité, LL. realitas. See 3d Real. and cf. 2d Realty.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “reality”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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