Unreality
[,ʌnri'æliti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality possessed by something that is unreal.
(noun.) the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
Typist: Ludwig
Examples
- Art and Life were to them the Reality and the Unreality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It's a great actual unreality now, an aggregation into unreality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Could it be possible that the sense of unreality in which he felt himself imprisoned had communicated itself to his wife? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Then suddenly surrendering to something, to the luxury of going into unreality, he said, Let us talk of Madrid and of us in Madrid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Five years had failed to destroy the dazzling unreality of passion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Orville