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facticity

fact·i·ci·ty/fækˈtɪsɪti/noun

facticity is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being a fact” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-T-I-C-I-T-Y and has 4 syllables (fact·i·ci·ty), and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of facticity is facticities.

What does facticity mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality or state of being a fact.

  2. 2

    In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over.

  3. 3

    A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.

    Near-synonyms: given, axiom, postulate

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce facticity?

  • UK /fækˈtɪsɪti/
  • US /fækˈtɪsɪti/
  • US [-ɾi]

Facticity has 4 syllables, split fact·i·ci·ty in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-facticity.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of facticity

  • facticities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is facticity?

Facticity appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Facticity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfacticité (quality or state of being a fact)
Spanishfacticidad (quality or state of being a fact)
GermanFaktizität (state of being in the world without any…)
Portuguesefacticidade (state of being in the world without any…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does facticity come from?

From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).