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COUNTERFACTUALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does counterfactuality mean?
• COUNTERFACTUALITY (noun)
The noun COUNTERFACTUALITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being contrary to fact
Familiarity information: COUNTERFACTUALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being contrary to fact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("counterfactuality" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Antonym:
factuality (the quality of being actual or based on fact)
Derivation:
counterfactual (going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis))
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