Reality
Reality noun - All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you.
Usage example: for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
World
World noun - The whole body of things observed or assumed.
Usage example: theories about the origin of the world
How words are described
| known | known reality | known world |
| human | human reality | human world |
| mortal | mortal reality | mortal world |
| old | old reality | old world |
| Other adjectives: physical, full, parallel, normal, future, current, original, open, entire, real, little, dark, cruel, outside, fictional, next, alternate, strange, different, changing, virtual, magical. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The Bonus Boss Culex in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is fought inside an alternate dimension that appears to be somewhere in the Final Fantasy universe, probably near the Final Fantasy IV reality/world/whatever, judging by the music.
Source: Final Boss, New Dimension -
Pain, the servant of Desire schemed to end the world/reality/time by manipulating Adam Case.
Source: Omnicidal Maniac - Bill Cipher goes on to become the Big Bad of the series, eventually coercing Gideon into being his (human) Dragon when Bill finally breaks the barriers between his world and reality.
Source: Evil Is Not a Toy
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World and Reality. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/reality/world
Reality & World. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/reality/world>.
World or Reality. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/reality/world.
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