as in illusion
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
a sci-fi author who seems to have preferred the unrealities of his own fiction to the realities of the world about him
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Recent Examples of unreality
Biden’s Presidency may have offered a measure of stability and sanity to those reeling from the unreality of the Trump years, but his reëlection campaign did not.
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
After such a long Conservative reign, there’s a feeling of unreality to events.
—Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vogue, 5 July 2024
Until, eventually, the scope of this unreality ripples outwards into the really real world of geopolitics in dangerous ways.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2024
Florida is entering a subtropical state of unreality in which these decisions don’t add up.
—Mario Alejandro Ariza, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
After such a long Conservative reign, there’s a feeling of unreality to events.
—Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vogue, 5 July 2024
Until, eventually, the scope of this unreality ripples outwards into the really real world of geopolitics in dangerous ways.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2024
Florida is entering a subtropical state of unreality in which these decisions don’t add up.
—Mario Alejandro Ariza, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for unreality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreality
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Part of the show’s magic is that performers can literally be anybody or anything and the listener completes the illusion with their mind’s eye.Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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That illusion is enough to fool even a lie detector.Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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On Netflix Lovely Runner This romantic time travel fantasy was one of the year’s biggest hits and a surprise hit at that.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Today’s sentence helps ensure that Shouse’s fantasies won’t become another child’s nightmare for decades to come.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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My dream was not to publish or to even be a writer: my dream was to discover something no one else had thought of.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Juvenile actor Abdallah, who lost his left leg at the age of four in a missile attack that killed his father, gives a remarkable performance as the resourceful boy who eventually takes enormous risks to keep at least part of his dream alive.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
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The rest of this season is now just a prelude to another coaching search and more daydreams about how great the future is going to be once the Bears finally figure out how to win.Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Ryan My daydreams consist of Playing in the World Cup. – Parker Writing more music.Charles Moss, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
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With scary precision, the playwright captures the delusion that roots itself in families who use faith to control.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Corcoran is under the paranoid delusion that prison guards are torturing him with sound waves.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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But the Eldorado iteration made from 1967 to 1970 was the beginning of GM’s new vision of personal luxury.Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
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Our vision is simply to be the most excellent Professional Publisher there is.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Unreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreality. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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