unreality
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8.8
- noun
- /ˌʌnˈriːəlɪti/
:
irrealidad
- The significant quality of our national conversation is one of overwhelming, oppressive, and suffocating unreality.
Whatever your anxiety is, there's a place for you in unreality.
- Whatever your anxiety is, there's a place for you in unreality.
- So again, you're you're facing an unreality.
Examples
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The glaring unreality of this film magnifies its wearisome repulsiveness.
Academic text (2011) -
"I make statements, not jokes, I want to tell her, but a kind of unreality has set in again.
Fiction book (1993) -
I ought to know better how to handle that! But that unreality, that denial sets in when it's actually happening.
Blog text (27) -
Being close to the earth, so to speak, seems to be a hedge against unreality.
Blog text (31) -
This new order of magnitude in killing efficiency also brought a certain distance and unreality on the part of the killer.
Academic text (2010) -
As graduation approached, he became impatient with the unreality of college life, an experience familiar to American students.
Academic text (1990) -
Education ungrounded in God's truth from beginning to end is necessarily poisoned with unreality.
Blog text (23) -
"Miss Macaulay," he said aloud, breaking the eerie half-silence of their island of unreality.
Fiction book (1993) -
Oddly enough, their excited squeakings and chitterings as Farli dared Trig to more and more outrageous maneuvers helped dispel the unreality of this bizarre environment.
Fiction book (1991) -
He often feels a sense of unreality when he daydreams during meetings.
Synonyms
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6.3
A way of thinking that ignores real problems and expects impossible results
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 style that does not show real people or things
Antonyms
How Detached
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unreality comes from un- 'not' and real 'existing' or 'true', and a helpful way to remember the second meaning is to think of it as 'not dealing with real things'. So, calling someone out for unreality means they are out of touch with facts or not handling practical problems.