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unreality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- 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 unreality From un- (“lack of, not”) + reality.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Lack of reality or real existence.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
    • 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. 1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Science_and_Health_with_Key_to_the_Scriptures_(1906).djvu/126), Harper and Row, page 110:
    • 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. 2014, Robert A.F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence:
  3. (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
  4. (countable, uncountable) Unpractical character; visionariness.

Forms

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Synonyms

disreality · irreality

Translations (8)

ca irrealitat (Translations) · lv irealitāte (Translations) · ga míréalaíocht (Translations) · es irrealidad (Translations) · pt irrealidade (Translations) · fr irréalité (Translations) · ga neamhréaltacht (Translations) · it irrealtà (Translations)