Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being unreal.
- noun Something unreal, insubstantial, or imaginary.
- noun A lack of ability to deal with reality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of reality or real existence.
- noun That which has no reality or real existence.
- noun Unpractical character; visionariness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
reality orreal existence . - noun uncountable The state of being
unreal - noun countable That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or
imaginary - noun
Unpractical character ;visionariness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
- noun the quality possessed by something that is unreal
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mean how grounded in unreality (or how fickle) are these people?
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And particularly as a writer of the supernatural, I depend on those dream images to give a certain unreality to real-life situations – and to give a certain inevitability to my unreal situations.
January 2008 2008
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And particularly as a writer of the supernatural, I depend on those dream images to give a certain unreality to real-life situations – and to give a certain inevitability to my unreal situations.
What dreams may come 2008
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Therefore of course Zoskie lives in unreality given that Raevmo has such a tight grip on his version.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Therefore of course Zoskie lives in unreality given that Raevmo has such a tight grip on his version.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Therefore of course Zoskie lives in unreality given that Raevmo has such a tight grip on his version.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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This unreality is boosted by: (1) the plethora of television “reality” shows that suggest that success has little to do with anything but ambition, desire, and immorality; (2) educational institutions that punish those teachers who actually assess student performance realistically and who insist on results; (3) the increasing reliance on tests that measure assorted facts and basic intelligence, but not the ability to think and learn; and (4) greater and greater reliance on pleasing parents and students than upon imparting skills and the ability to think.
The Age of Unreality « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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This unreality is boosted by: (1) the plethora of television “reality” shows that suggest that success has little to do with anything but ambition, desire, and immorality; (2) educational institutions that punish those teachers who actually assess student performance realistically and who insist on results; (3) the increasing reliance on tests that measure assorted facts and basic intelligence, but not the ability to think and learn; and (4) greater and greater reliance on pleasing parents and students than upon imparting skills and the ability to think.
June « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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It is apparent that William Dudley and Ben Bernanke have succumbed to a common affliction among economists known as "unreality syndrome."
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In Washington, I'm not sure we have virtual reality, I think what we have up here is virtual unreality, which is a bad thing because it enables you to almost dehumanize problems and turn them into words and rhetoric and labels.
President On Economic Plan Passage Anniversary ITY National Archives 1994
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