现实在日常应用时意味着“客观存在的事物”或“合于客观情况的条件”中国社会科学院语言研究所编 《现代汉语词典》 商务印书馆 1995年 北京Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Full entry for reality: "reality · noun (pl. realities) 1 the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. 2 a thing that is actually experienced or seen. 3 the quality of being lifelike. 4 the state or quality of having existence or substance.")， 广义的讲，“现实”包括所有可以观察到或能理解的事物，所以既包括存在也包括虚无。