facticity

[ fak-tis-i-tee ]

noun

1. the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.

Word History and Origins

Origin of facticity¹

1940–45; fact + -icity ( -ic + -ity ), perhaps after authenticity

Example Sentences

The American legal system, indeed any legal system, is a search for truth, facticity, conclusion, and resolution.

From Slate

She said Psaki had a “facticity to her work that is characteristic of good press secretaries and it presupposes confidence. It presupposes access to the president. It presupposes an understanding of what the administration’s position is that proves to be true.”

From Seattle Times

Because no institution of facticity can contain them.

From Slate

It was, for them, in the words of Daryn Lehoux, an example of ‘unproblematic facticity’.

From Literature

There are cases of ‘problematic facticity’ and others of ‘unproblematic facticity’, and the language of the fact seems to be employed first of all to deal with cases of problematic facticity.

From Literature