irreality

noun

ir·​re·​al·​i·​ty ˌir-ē-ˈa-lə-tē How to pronounce irreality (audio)

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Rude reality — or irreality? — breaks the spell again, but Beau somehow escapes fresh threats against his life and lands back at the palatial home of his mother in the town that bears the titan of industry’s name, Wasserton. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023 Reality was ugly, but irreality is a numb trap, fertile for regret. Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 Chung, despite her own laserlike precision, is interested in permeable boundaries: the membranes between reality and irreality, pushy parent and yielding child, sanity and illness. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022 There was no amazing aftertaste of citrus-sharp malice after trips to Disneyland, no sense of irreality pouncing upon the real and quite deliberately eating it for breakfast. Helen Oyeyemi, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2021 This unearthly tension between reality and irreality is exacerbated by the setting. Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1803, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of irreality was in 1803

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“Irreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irreality. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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