The being real; truth as it is in the thing; objective validity; independence of the attributions of individual thought; positively determinate being, The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact, The state of being actual or real, adjective_ Relating to or being a genre of television or film in which a storyline is created by editing footage of people interacting or competing with one another in unscripted, unrehearsed situations