realty

From Middle French realité (“property, possession”). Doublet of reality.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiəlti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪəlti/

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• Rhymes: (General American) -iəlti

• Pronunciation /ˈɹiləti/ is usually considered incorrect.

realty (countable and uncountable, plural realties)

1. Real estate; a piece of real property; land.
2. (law) The property that goes to the heirs of the deceased, as distinguished from the personalty, which goes to the executor or administrator of the estate.
3. (obsolete) Reality.
4. (obsolete) Loyalty; faithfulness; fealty.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     O heaven! That such resemblance of the highest
     Should yet remain, where faith and realty
     Remain not

5. (obsolete) Royalty.

• personalty

• realtor
• realty agent

• Ratley, Tayler, elytra, lyrate, raylet, telary