unreality

Examples

• All

• The film created a sense of unreality that made the audience question what was real.

• The vertiginous sense of unreality seeped away as fast as it had come.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And you will, I am sure, have felt a certain unreality in the picture of human life so far proposed.

  Academic text (1990)

• The sense of unreality was already closing in again.

  Fiction book (2000)

• You noticed her memory is already beginning to take on a quality of unreality.

  The Angry Red Planet (1959)

• We live in an atmosphere of pervasive unreality, especially in marketing and politics.

  Blog text (22)

• Mandy looked around the wonderful bedroom with a feeling of unreality.

  Fiction book (1991)

• His mind reeled with the unreality of what was taking place tonight in Berlin.

  Fiction book (1991)

• There are moments when the sheer unreality of an event proves overwhelming, when, all at once, the mind can't embrace the situation.

  Fiction book (2002)

• During the dream, I was enveloped in a world of unreality where nothing followed the laws of nature.

Synonyms

N

nonexistence

vsunreality

5 7.0

A state in which something is not there

includes imagined states as well as literal absence

F

fictionality

vsunreality

• Literature

1 7.5

The state of being imagined rather than real, often in stories

is broader, applying beyond literature to any not real state

V

virtuality

vsunreality

1 8.3

The state of existing as a possibility but not in the real world

focuses on functional existence, not purely imaginary absence

U

unrealness

vsunreality

7.4

A feeling that something is not real like a dream

is broader, covering both imagined things and actual absence

I

irreality

vsunreality

9.9

A feeling that something is not real, like a dream

is broader, covering the state of being not real or absent

N

nonreality

vsunreality

9.3

A state where things exist only in your imagination or in games

also covers states that simply do not exist in fact

F

fictitiousness

vsunreality

8.5

A quality of being made up and not real that people sometimes use to trick others

tends to stress invention or falseness rather than general not real quality

U

unrealism

vsunreality

• Literature

8.9

A style that does not show real people or things

refers to the general state rather than an artistic style

Antonyms

R

reality

∞ 1.4

The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish

How Real

reality

∞ 1.4

unreality

2 7.9

illusion

319 4.6

fiction

271 2.0

fantasy

112 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology