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 (first-person possessive realitasku, second-person possessive realitasmu, third-person possessive realitasnya)

1. reality; the state of being real
   • 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.

Synonyms

• kenyataan
• realitet (archaic)
• realiti (Standard Malay)

Antonyms

• kemayaan

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

• realitas virtual (“virtual reality”)
• realitas tertambah (“augmented reality”)

Related terms

• realisasi

Latin

Etymology

reālis (“real”) +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈaː.li.taːs/, [reˈäːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈa.li.tas/, [reˈäːlit̪äs]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	reālitās	reālitātēs
Genitive	reālitātis	reālitātum
Dative	reālitātī	reālitātibus
Accusative	reālitātem	reālitātēs
Ablative	reālitāte	reālitātibus
Vocative	reālitās	reālitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: realitat
• German: Realität
• Spanish: realidad
• → Hungarian: realitás
• → Indonesian: realitas
• Italian: realtà
• → Latvian: realitāte
• Portuguese: realidade
• French: réalité
  • English: reality
    • → Malay: realiti
  • → Luxembourgish: Realitéit
  • Dutch: realiteit
    • → Afrikaans: realiteit
  • Romanian: realitate
  • Swedish: realitet

References

• realitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)