Status vs. Reality — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Status and Reality
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Status
Relative social or professional position; standing
An improvement in the status of women
Reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.
Status
The situation at a particular time during a process
An update on the status of the bill
Reality
The state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them
Laura was losing touch with reality
He refuses to face reality
Status
Position relative to that of others; standing
Her status is that of a guest.
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Reality
The state or quality of having existence or substance
Youth, when death has no reality
Status
High standing; prestige
A position of status in the community.
Reality
The quality or state of being actual or true.
Status
(Law) The legal character or condition of a person or thing
The status of a minor.
Reality
One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual
"the weight of history and political realities" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).
Status
The state of affairs; the situation
What is the status of the negotiations?.
Reality
The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
Status
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
Reality
That which exists objectively and in fact
Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
Status
Or high standing.
Reality
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.
Status
A situation or state of affairs.
What's the status of the investigation?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.
Reality
The state of being actual or real; realness.
The reality of the crash scene on TV dawned upon him only when he saw the victim was no actor but his friend.
Status
(legal) The legal condition of a person or thing.
Reality
The real world.
Status
The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
He is a status Indian.
Reality
A real entity, event, or other fact.
The ultimate reality of life is that it ends in death.
Status
(social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
Reality
The entirety of all that is real.
Status
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Reality
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
Status
State; condition; position of affairs.
Reality
(obsolete) loyalty; devotion.
Status
The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
He had the status of a minor
The novel attained the status of a classic
Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life
Reality
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Status
A state at a particular time;
A condition (or state) of disrepair
The current status of the arms negotiations
Reality
The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
Reality
That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
And to realities yield all her shows.
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me.
Reality
Loyalty; devotion.
To express our reality to the emperor.
Reality
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Reality
All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;
His world was shattered
We live in different worlds
For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
Reality
The state of being actual or real;
The reality of his situation slowly dawned on him
Reality
The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;
Businessmen have to face harsh realities
Reality
The quality possessed by something that is real
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