What is Reality?
- Kurt Heidinger
- May 28, 2022
- 1 min read

The word reality denotes "the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them." Its etymology is "1540s, "quality of being real, objective reality," from French réalité and directly from Medieval Latin realitatem (nominative realitas), from Late Latin realis (see real (adj.)). Also compare realty, which was the older form of the word in the sense of "reality" (mid-15c.)." Reality is rooted in realty, or real estate, the human ownership of land.
And in the Spanish word for currency, the real: ""small silver coin and money of account in Spain and Spanish America," 1580s, from Spanish real, noun use of real (adj.) "regal," from Latin regalis "regal" (see regal). Especially in reference to the real de plata, which circulated in the U.S. till c. 1850 and in Mexico until 1897. The same word was used in Middle English in reference to various coins, from Old French real, a cognate of the Spanish word."
Money buys real estate and that is "reality". Here's the fun part. Real estate is not reality. Biology is. We should not use the word reality to denote that which we live in, and that gives us life and lets us live. Biolity. That's the correct word. It denotes "the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them."



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