ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unreality

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Unreality is a noun meaning Lack of reality or real existence.

Meaning

Lack of reality or real existence.

More Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
  2. (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
  3. Unpractical character; visionariness.

Example Sentences

Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Then, the Lord, for the sake of those involved in the Universal Vehicle, turned a second wheel of Dharma, even more wondrous and amazing, by proclaiming emptiness, starting from the fact of the unreality, productionlessness, ceaselessness, primordial peace, and natural liberation of all things.

Word Forms

Synonyms for unreality

Depending on context, synonyms include disreality, irreality.

Antonyms for unreality

Common opposites include realism, realness, reality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include irreality, unexistence, existencelessness, nonexistence, inexistence, subrealism.

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