Word Study
unreality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun unreality has 2 senses
- unreality(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality possessed by something that is unreal; Array is a kind of immateriality, incorporeality
- unreality(n = noun.state) irreality - the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact; Array is a kind of nonentity, nonexistence
Antonym: reality
Derived form adjective unreal1
has particulars: cloud, falseness, falsity
Antonym: reality
Derived forms adjective unreal4, adjective unreal1
CIDE DICTIONARY
unreality, n.
The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
unreality
Prospero, absence, airiness, appearance, autism, autistic thinking, bodilessness, delusiveness, deprivation, dereism, dereistic thinking, dreamery, emptiness, ethereality, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, flight of fancy, flimsiness, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, imaginative exercise, immateriality, impalpability, imponderability, impracticality, incorporeality, insubstantiality, intangibility, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, mistiness, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullity, play of fancy, prestidigitation, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, subtility, subtlety, tenuity, tenuousness, unactuality, unconcreteness, unpracticalness, unrealism, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, utopianism, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vagueness, visionariness, void, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking
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