Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being virtual or not actual.
- noun Potentiality; potential existence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being virtual.
- noun obsolete Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
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- noun A state of being
virtual .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Certain motifs begin to gestate a picture in the mind as you gradually learn through half-remembered, diaphanous glimpses that Mars and the moon have been colonised; dispossessed astronauts wander the Earth; drugs are rampant; and technological virtuality is encoded into the very fabric of everyday life.
Ballardian » Review: Jeremy Reed’s West End Survival Kit 2010
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In Wordsworth's Ode on intimation in recollection, pure virtuality is tagged in retrospect as engaged potential — and precisely in its revelation about the inner world of our "mortal Nature"
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But there was something about the "virtuality" of it that had allowed me to be sucked in, first by its seeming harmlessness, then by the way the internet lends itself to fantasy -- the brain to brain contact, the brain to heart connection.
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There is the huge advantage of virtuality, meaning that there are no physical constraints.
Adam Ramona, his "Unsung Songs," and his color Blue Bettina Tizzy 2007
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There is the huge advantage of virtuality, meaning that there are no physical constraints.
Archive 2007-10-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007
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What functions as a "virtuality" for one domain of actuality can, is, in turn, an actuality for another domain of virtuality or generative mechanisms.
Larval Subjects . 2009
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But even as the film makes this gap explicit - warning us, that if we abandon the Cave, things will not be as they once seemed - it also perpetuates another layer of virtuality, this one older and more complicated, but not by much: the documentary film.
Alex Pasternack: The "Truth" About Catfish, the More Complicated, More Important Facebook Movie Alex Pasternack 2010
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But even as the film makes this gap explicit - warning us, that if we abandon the Cave, things will not be as they once seemed - it also perpetuates another layer of virtuality, this one older and more complicated, but not by much: the documentary film.
Alex Pasternack: The "Truth" About Catfish , the More Complicated, More Important Facebook Movie Alex Pasternack 2010
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But even as the film makes this gap explicit - warning us, that if we abandon the Cave, things will not be as they once seemed - it also perpetuates another layer of virtuality, this one older and more complicated, but not by much: the documentary film.
Alex Pasternack: The "Truth" About Catfish , the More Complicated, More Important Facebook Movie Alex Pasternack 2010
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And speaking of virtuality, it strikes me that your international legal system has something of a ‘virtual’ character to it.
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