unreality
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being unreal, fanciful, or impractical
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something that is unreal
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"Mr Bridgen's case as pleaded and evidenced so far does not have an obvious quality of unreality," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
Kayvan, as someone who's been part of the cast since the beginning, what has been your favorite aspect of that unreality that you’ll maybe miss the most?
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
But there is a seduction to the unreality of these images, too.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
The air was charged with unreality, as if she would certainly wake up in a minute.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting?
From Salon ● May 2, 2021
But now he’s building whole new unrealities, ones in which seeing isn’t believing—ever.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2020
In fact, the unrealities of movie-land became a major subject of his fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020
The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
Yet Carlyle's untiring denunciation of "shams" and "unrealities" of this, as of other varieties, does not mean unqualified antipathy.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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