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Realis meaning
A category of grammatical moods, the most common of which is the indicative mood, that indicate that something actually is, or is not, the case.
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At this point, Realis managing director Duncan Mathieson was still insisting the development would go ahead.
It is not uncommon for non-Indo-European languages not to have a three way tense distinction, but instead to distinguish between realis (past/present) and irrealis (future) moods, and describe the past distinction using completive aspect.
The term "reality" has been used in English since the 1540s, to mean "quality of being real," from "French réalité and directly Medieval Latin realitatem (nominative realitas), from Late Latin realis".