real life

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• noun Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
• noun by extension, sometimes capitalized Life outside the Internet.
• noun by extension Pressing day-to-day commitments: real life intervened.
• adjective Not fictional; actually happening or capable of happening.

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• noun the practical world as opposed to the academic world