irreality

Examples

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• Imagery, then, based on irreality, is far less potent than when based on reality, and extinction of the reinforcement is much more likely.

  Academic text (1991)

• That is to say it was irreality, and not non-reality, because it actually existed.

  Academic text (1991)

• The reality that was such a hallmark of his beginning has given way to an uneasy irreality.

  Blog text (9)

• In both dreams, the concreteness of the images is sharply highlighted within a frame of imagined irreality.

  Academic text (2002)

• It was then that I realized that grade inflation represents not simply a local problem in American higher education, but an Alice-in-Wonderland irreality that has all of us, students, professors, and administrators, under its spell.

  Academic text (2003)

• In this manner, Contre-jour manages to be a triumph of human psychology while, at the same time, it constitutes a climax of irreality or antirealism in the formal realm.

  Academic text (1994)

• For, of course, novel characters are exactly what Larsen and Sonstegard are, and the gap between the reality of Fru Krane's everyday life and her notions about the irreality of fiction is breached.

  Academic text (2000)

• The novel explores the theme of irreality, depicting a world where nothing is quite as it seems.

• After losing touch with reality, his mind was trapped in a state of irreality where nothing felt genuine.

Synonyms

U

unreality

vsirreality

2 7.9

A feeling that things are not real or are like a dream

is the general quality of lacking objective existence

U

unrealness

vsirreality

7.4

A feeling that something is not real like a dream

is more focused on lack of objective existence than dreamlike tone

N

nonreality

vsirreality

9.3

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

emphasizes general absence of real existence rather than imagined status

I

insubstantiality

vsirreality

9.2

A lack of being real, strong, or convincing

focuses on absence of real existence not just weakness or thinness

I

illusoriness

vsirreality

9.8

A feeling that something seems real when it is not

means lack of real existence rather than misleading appearance

Antonyms

R

reality

∞ 1.4

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

How Real

reality

∞ 1.4

irreality

9.9

fantasy

112 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology