telereality en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- 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 Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor. French réalitéder. English reality English telereality From tele- + reality.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The supposed reality conveyed by television.
This suprasensory reminiscence, this journey of the soul through places, bodies and successive lives, this fantasy ubiquity, has nothing to do with the ubiquity that is ours through the networks, through telepresence and telereality.
2005, Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact, page 207:The "real" world unfolds in the swarming dots of a twenty-five inch screen in trinitronic telereality.
1987, Telos, Volume 20, Number 73, Washington University, page 61