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antireal en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real English antireal From anti- + real.

Meanings

1. Opposing or countering reality.
   • But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal. 1999, Harold Bloom, O. Henry, page 24:
   • Being antireal, it insists that the really real (the thing-in-itself) cannot be known in any definitive way. Instead, we only have differing lenses […] 2003, Robert C. Greer, Mapping postmodernism: a survey of Christian options, page 124:

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