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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As Baldacci says in an essay this week, “Arguing about facts doesn’t deter outlandish ideas, misinformation or AI hallucination. Maybe more storytelling, more imagination, more fiction is what’s needed to combat the unreality spun online.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But they are facing threats from all sides: A vengeful president; a distracted and disengaged audience used to endless scrolling and pop-pop-pops of entertainment; the creeping unreality of A.I.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2026
The High Court ultimately described some of his submissions as having a "distinct air of unreality".
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Herbert Simon said, "If you go down this path you're basing all of economics on the principle of unreality."
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025
She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Able to create beautiful, lived-in realities and fantastical unrealities that are overflowing with detail.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
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
This is his answer to the chief question of philosophy, namely, what, amid all the appearances and unrealities of things, is that absolute and ultimate reality, from which all else is to be explained?
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
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