SG Heritage Dictionary

Virtual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Potential; having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the material or sensible part.

2. Every kind that lives, fomented by his virtual power, and warm'd.

3. Neither an actual nor virtual intention of the mind, but only that which may be gathered from the outward acts.

4. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

Virtual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.

2. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

Virtuality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Efficacy.

Virtuality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality or state of being virtual.

2. Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.

Virtually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In efficacy or effect only; by means of some virtue or influence, or the instrumentality of something else. Thus the sun is virtually on earth by its light and heat. The citizens of an elective government are virtually present in the legislature by their representatives. A man may virtually agree to a proposition by silence or withholding objections.

Virtually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

Inexistence Roget’s Thesaurus §2

N. inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, # nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, nirvana, obliteration

V. not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die, annihilate, render null, nullify, abrogate, destroy, take away, remove, obliterate, extirpate

Adj. inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated, &c. v, extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious

Adv. negatively, virtually

Phr. non ens, 2, being, in the concrete

Intrinsicality Roget’s Thesaurus §5

N. intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics

V. be in the blood, run in the blood, be born so, be intrinsic

Adj. derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite|, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite|, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, (indicative) 550, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed

Adv. intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly

Phr. "character is higher than intellect", "come give us a taste of your quality" magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, "vital spark of heavenly flame", external conditions