Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for reality

Synonyms for reality: world and realness. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for reality

worldnoun, in the sense "all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you"
realnessnoun, in the sense "the state of being actual or real"

Two senses of reality, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

world

Same sentence, swapped: For them demons were as much a part of world as trees were.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

realness
living
reminder

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 4, High CampStates and conditions

the state of being actual or real

The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

realness

Same sentence, swapped: The realness of his situation slowly dawned on him.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

unreality
event
adventure

Where reality turns up in the game

reality is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play reality

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reality reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

theorynounpossibilitya tentative insight into the natural worldFoothills thinkingnounthoughtthe process of using your mind to consider something carefullyFoothillsHas a reason line trialnounrunthe act of testing somethingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line trustnounfaithcomplete confidence in a person or plan etcFoothills2 senses ilknounlikea kind of personHigh Camp illusionnounfancysomething many people believe that is falseTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line imagenounprototypea standard or typical exampleTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line introduceverbpresentcause to come to know personallyFoothillsHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. reality carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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