the facticity of the information is not at issue; it's whether something so private should ever be made public
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An effective story must have the unity and lyricism of a poem while giving the comforting facticity of a novel.—
Deborah Treisman,
The New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2020 Molina seems to be trying to prove a point here, something about what can be lost by emphasizing the facticity and evidentiary value of archival research.—
Jacob Silverman,
New Republic,
16 Aug. 2017
Word History
Etymology
fact + -icity (as in authenticity), perhaps after German Faktizität