unreality
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- noun
- /ˌʌnˈriːəlɪti/
:
irrealidad
- In other words, are there occasions when the world around you assumes an aura of unreality?
- sense of unreality
What it took to be reality, it finds to be unreality.
- What it took to be reality, it finds to be unreality.
Examples
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The film created a sense of unreality that made the audience question what was real.
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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.
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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
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A state in which something is not there
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7.5
The state of being imagined rather than real, often in stories
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The state of existing as a possibility but not in the real world
A feeling that something is not real like a dream
A feeling that something is not real, like a dream
A state where things exist only in your imagination or in games
A quality of being made up and not real that people sometimes use to trick others
A style that does not show real people or things
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unreality comes from the parts un- 'not' and real 'existing' or 'true'. So, unreality means 'not real' and that is why we use it for a dreamlike or imagined feeling when the world seems strange or unreal.