hyperreal
Britishadjective
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involving or characterized by particularly realistic graphic representation
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distorting or exaggerating reality
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pertaining to or creating a hyperreality
noun
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that which constitutes hyperreality
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short for hyperreal number
Example Sentences
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Producing shots so photorealistic that they border on the hyperreal.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023
Staring into a phone camera, preening to check our makeup or undereye circles, gives us a hyperreal mirror, but this, too, is distorted and reversed.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2023
Part makeup studio and part anatomy lesson, H&MUA’s advanced Catrina class helps artists perfect the hyperreal skulls and skeletons that have become visual shorthand for Día de los Muertos.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022
Users enter a phrase or string of words into DALL-E, and the tool returns its own interpretation in the form of four images, ranging from whimsical to hyperreal.
From The Verge • Jul. 20, 2022
Assuras, a recent college graduate visiting D.C. from Ontario, was drawn both to the Friends Experience and a Van Gogh experience that offered hyperreal versions of actual paintings on display elsewhere.
From Washington Post • May 15, 2022
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