Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reality_check

1 sense of reality check

Sense 1
reality check -- (an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world; "this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs"; "after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check")
       => juncture, occasion -- (an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions")