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unreality Definition

un·re·al·ity (-rē al′ə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. the state or quality of being unreal
  2. something unreal or imaginary
  3. inability to deal with reality; impracticality

  • unrealizable
  • unrealized
unreality Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • world: The focus of the preamble is clearly the superimposition between the Self and non- Self and NOT the unreality of the world.
  • war: However, perhaps because of that six-year period of the unreality of war, I was always aware of my role as an observer.
  • universe: Maybe that is why Shankara uses the analogy of the dream so emphatically to describe the reality or unreality of the universe.
  • object: It is only in the Buddhist theories that we come across the absolute unreality of the objects of error.

Preposition: about

  • plan: But there is an air of unreality about such plans.

Converse of object

  • see: Middle management can see the unreality, but are signed up to delivering the impossible.

Modifies a noun

  • bubble: Elsewhere, people thought they had the conclusion to the Starbug destruction sorted - surely they were in another unreality bubble?
  • minefield: Episode 6 ( 11 NOV 93 ) Out Of Time The crew encounter an experimental spacecraft surrounded by an ' unreality minefield ' .
unreality Quotes

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldöin fugitive dreams and illusions.

—Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney