unreality
unreality
Definition
un·re·al·ity (-rē al′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- the state or quality of being unreal
- something unreal or imaginary
- 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
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.
Browse dictionary entries near unreality
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