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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Origin of unreality
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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
"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
Impressively, “Grand Tour” illuminates the artificiality of its trappings while honoring them, tapping into our collective acceptance of the “reality” of cinema’s unreality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
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
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
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
Love, loss, grief, fate, family and connection are its recurring themes, turned this way and that through overlapping realities and unrealities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
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
"Why, was there any harm in it?" asked Stella quickly, and, as if to allay Michael's fear by so direct a question, one hand went trilling in scale towards the airy unrealities of the treble.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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