1[countableC usually plural]IN FACT facts, rather than things that people believe or imagine 事实,真实情况,实际情况SYN realities
the grim actualities of prison life
监狱生活的严酷现实
2REAL/NOT IMAGINARY[uncountableU] the state of being real or really existing 真实,实际
In actuality, it’s much more complex than that (=used when talking about what a situation is really like).
实际情况比那要复杂得多。
Examples from the Corpus
actuality• Jane thinks that they will probably marry in actuality but that he can not love the vain, shallow woman.• I lived it twice now, once in anticipation, once in actuality.• It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearesttown, though in actuality it might be only five or six.• In actuality, cheese making is preservation of a food by dehydration.• You should not confuse the 33 illusion of motion with its actuality.• Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time.