unreality
IPA: ʌnriˈæɫʌti
noun
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- (uncountable) The state of being unreal
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
Advertisement
Examples of "unreality" in Sentences
- I mean how grounded in unreality (or how fickle) are these people?
- Therefore of course Zoskie lives in unreality given that Raevmo has such a tight grip on his version.
- It is apparent that William Dudley and Ben Bernanke have succumbed to a common affliction among economists known as "unreality syndrome."
- And particularly as a writer of the supernatural, I depend on those dream images to give a certain unreality to real-life situations – and to give a certain inevitability to my unreal situations.
- In Washington, I'm not sure we have virtual reality, I think what we have up here is virtual unreality, which is a bad thing because it enables you to almost dehumanize problems and turn them into words and rhetoric and labels.
- This unreality is boosted by: (1) the plethora of television “reality” shows that suggest that success has little to do with anything but ambition, desire, and immorality; (2) educational institutions that punish those teachers who actually assess student performance realistically and who insist on results; (3) the increasing reliance on tests that measure assorted facts and basic intelligence, but not the ability to think and learn; and (4) greater and greater reliance on pleasing parents and students than upon imparting skills and the ability to think.
Advertisement
Advertisement