Definitions For Facticity

Noun

FACTICITY (plural - or facticities) (uncountable) The quality#noun, quality or state#noun, state of being a fact. : {{synonyms, en, factuality, factualness}} (uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason#noun, reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control#noun, control over. : {{synonyms, en, dasein, thrownness}} (countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true#adjective, true without further evaluation. : {{synonyms, en, given}}

Related terms

{{col4, en, fact, factic, factically, factiness, factness, factual, factualism, factualist, factuality, factualization, factualize, factually, factualness}}

Translations

Estonian: faktilisus French: facticité, f Italian: fatticità, f Spanish: facticidad, f Swedish: fakticitet Estonian: faktilisus French: facticité, f German: Faktizität, f Icelandic: staðvera Italian: fatticità, f Norwegian: faktisitet Portuguese: facticidade, f Spanish: facticidad, f Swedish: fakticitet

Etymology

from fact + icity, possibly modelled on {{der + en + de + faktizität}}{{r:oed online + johann gottlieb fichte}} (1762–1814).

Is Facticity a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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Points in Different Games

Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
20

The word Facticity is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Facticity in a Sentence

  • The facticity of the information is not at issue; it's whether something so private should ever be made public

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