noun · countable / uncountable · rare

facticity

fact·i·ci·ty

facticity · facticities

Faktizität

The quality or state of being a factThe quality or state of being a fact.

/fækˈtɪsɪti/

Meaning

3 senses

(uncountable, usually)The quality or state of being a fact.
(specifically, uncountable, usually)In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over.
Faktizität
(countable, usually)A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
Near-synonyms: given, axiom, postulate

Translations

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Deutsch

By meaning 1

state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over:

Origin

From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the wri

From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).

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