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unreality

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality possessed by something that is unreal [ant: reality ] the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact [syn: irreality ] [ant: reality ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1751, from un- (1) "not" + reality (n.).\n

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Lack of reality or real existence. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being unreal 3 (context countable English) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary 4 unpractical character; visionariness.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unreality \Un`re*al"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

Usage examples of unreality.

These streets, even if visited by someone in his waking hours, by some stranger in the fullness of health and sanity, and under the living and practical light of noon or, more particularly, by some man stunned with drink, who came there at some desolate and empty hour of night, might have a kind of cataleptic horror, a visionary unreality, as if some great maniac of architecture had conceived and shaped the first harsh, ugly pattern of brown angularity, and then repeated it, without a change, into the infinity of illimitable repetition, with the mad and measureless insistence of an idiotic monotony.

Selis watched Raki move away between the two Girdsmen with a strange feeling of unreality.

He followed the fence along to the edge of the pinetum and was about to clamber over the iron railings when the sense of unreality that had come over him with the sudden appearance of a large lock where no lock had previously been took a decided turn for the worse.

Quartz and rock crystal, suffused with Plattnerite, glimmered about the framework, giving the whole a sense of unreality and skewness.

She felt a sense of unreality as she was carried back to the night she had watched Steppy being stabbed.

Fascinated by the aspect of the weird sky-phenomenon, Theos was at the same time curiously impressed by a sense of its UNREALITY, .

Then the scene had some of the unreality and all of the immobility and silence of a picture, but now it was actually around them, and the cold breath and mournful voice of the underwind proved definitely enough that the world was real.

The contrast between the elaborate greenery and the untransformed rock was dramatic enough in daylight, but at night it had the unreality of nightmare.

Perhaps admirable in its appalling egocentricity, the plan had of course failed in unreality, greed, and hypocrisy.

Let him steer far away from all those vain philosophies, which endeavor to account for all that is, without admitting that there is a God, separate and apart from the Universe which is his work: which erect Universal Nature into a God, and worship it alone: which annihilate Spirit, and believe no testimony except that of the bodily senses: which, by logical formulas and dextrous collocation of words, make the actual, living, guiding, and protecting God fade into the dim mistiness of a mere abstraction and unreality, itself a mere logical formula.

Warden grinned happily, watching the lovely beautiful brilliant shuttling of the bottle as it wove and wound and spun the web of unreality, of talk about them both, relaxing into it.

After that we cast off all allegiance to immediate, tangible, and time-touched things, and entered a fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys.

Laying each piece neatly atop the previous across the back of the chair he had just quitted, he began to remove his clothing with a sense of unreality, but too much of that had recently occurred in his life to sustain the feeling.

Champollion, Rosellini, Lepsius, have held that the Typhonian animal was a purely imaginary one, and Wilkinson says that the Egyptians themselves admitted its unreality by representing it along with other fantastic beasts.

This burthens us with an incurable effect of unreality, and I do not see how it is altogether to be escaped.