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Meaning of "irreality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRREALITY

irreality  [ˌɪrɪˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRREALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irreality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IRREALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of irreality in the English dictionary

The definition of irreality in the dictionary is unreality.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRREALITY


bestiality
ˌbɛstɪˈælɪtɪ
collegiality
kəˌliːdʒɪˈælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
congeniality
kənˌdʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
conviviality
kənvɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
essentiality
ɪˌsenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
ideality
ˌaɪdɪˈælɪtɪ
immateriality
ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
impartiality
ˌɪmpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
joviality
ˌdʒəʊvɪˈælɪtɪ
materiality
məˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ
partiality
ˌpɑːʃɪˈælɪtɪ
potentiality
pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ
reality
rɪˈælɪtɪ
spatiality
ˌspeɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ
speciality
ˌspɛʃɪˈælɪtɪ
substantiality
səbˌstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ
territoriality
ˌtɛrɪˌtɔːrɪˈælɪtɪ
triviality
ˌtrɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
unreality
ˌʌnrɪˈælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRREALITY

irreal
irrealisable
irrealizable
irrebuttable
irreceptive
irreciprocal
irreciprocity
irreclaimability
irreclaimable
irreclaimableness
irreclaimably
irrecognisable
irrecognition
irrecognizable
irreconcilability
irreconcilable
irreconcilable differences
irreconcilableness
irreconcilably
irreconciled

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRREALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
sexuality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of irreality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «irreality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRREALITY

Find out the translation of irreality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of irreality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irreality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非现实
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irrealidad
570 millions of speakers

English

irreality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

irreality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

irreality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ирреальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irrealidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

irreality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irréalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak senonoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Irrealität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

irreality
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

irreality
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irreality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

irreality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலையல்லாதப் போதான நிகழ்வுக்குப் புறம்பானதாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचलितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

irreality
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dell´irrealtà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

irrealności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ірреальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

irealitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

irreality
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

irreality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irreality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irreality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irreality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRREALITY»

The term «irreality» is normally little used and occupies the 143.194 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of irreality
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRREALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irreality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irreality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irreality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRREALITY»

Discover the use of irreality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irreality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
No against No: Word Collages and Irreality
" Contents: word collages • no, not, non- • text interpretations • realistic and irrealistic way of reading texts • active, passive • literary models • irrealistic texts - what for? • psychological issues • world view, non ...
Werner Picard, 2011
2
Defiant Deviance: The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural ...
This innovative study embarks, from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, on redefining the « supernatural as elements that fail to be framed as « natural by their sociocultural environment.
Cristina Santos, Adriana Spahr, 2006
3
Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities
A Study of Unreal Possibilities Nicholas Rescher. Irreality A Study of Unreal Possibilities Nicholas Rescher Imagining Irreality This One WTN4-Y7Z-6G6P Imagining Irreality A Study of. Imagining Front Cover.
Nicholas Rescher, 2003
4
Bystander: an irreality
Poetry. "What would happen if words, disguised as characters Balboa Pettibone and She-singer, could hallucinate and time travel? mIEKAL aND, one of our most intrepid verbal explorers, takes us into the world of genre fiction and sets it ...
Miekal And, 2008
5
The Visible and Invisible Group: Two Perspectives on Group ...
Two Perspectives on Group Psychotherapy and Group Process Yvonne Agazarian. The person's perceptions of his environment are influenced by the degree to which information about the environment is processed in the realms of irreality or ...
Yvonne Agazarian, 1995
6
History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the ...
... House, 1995). 28. See, for example, David Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds ( Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000). 29. Nicholas Rescher, Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unreal Possibilities (Chicago: Open Court, 2003), 5 30.
David J. Staley, 2009
7
Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice
their "irreality." Of what does the positing of the "irreality" of the time in the proper sense of mental living consist? Of what does the positing of the "irreality" of mental living flowing off in the space-time of the real, objective world constituted in ...
F. Kersten, 1989
8
The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination
But, one might say, does it not retain its character of irreality? It retains it in such a way that the coefficient of irreality, joined to the unforeseeability and the externality, as I have defined it, only helps to accentuate the contradictory and fantastic ...
Jean-Paul Sartre, 2004
9
English Inversion: A Ground-before-Figure Construction
The other cuts reality into two halves: reality and irreality. The intersection of these two opposites yields four basic types of grounding predications, each of which "situates the designated process in a particular epistemic region: immediate ...
Rong Chen, 2003
10
Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face
In his discussions of the life space, he distinguished between the planes of reality and irreality. The plane of reality is the one in which locomotion takes place. In contrast, the plane of irreality is a mental construction that can include daydreams  ...
Dale Hample, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRREALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irreality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sweet Black Angel
An age that accepts fiction as fact naturally finds Dolezal fielding offers to display her irreality on a reality television show. The a.m. TV talkers ... «American Spectator, Jun 15»
2
Last word: Andre Alexis on a matter of style
But I'm obsessed with storytelling, with all of its ins and outs, its rhythms, graces, failures, byways, irreality and, of course, its traditions. «Quill & Quire, Mar 15»
3
A riveting 'Lohengrin' from soprano, Sound Icon
It is almost uniformly soft, with little resembling a motif or melody, the better to point up the sense of irreality. Toward the end, as the scene shifts ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
4
Irreality Check: Disappears Interviewed
The Chicago post-punk band released their new album, Irreal, this week. Before they come to the UK next month, Robert McCallum talks to ... «The Quietus, Jan 15»
5
Altered States: The Magic of Surrealism
But what if, even what we thought we knew turned out to be an irreality? René Magritte's surrealist painting of a pipe entitled This Is Not A Pipe ... «Huffington Post UK, Oct 14»
6
Luka Magnotta sent email about urge to kill, UK journalist says
“Would you agree with me there's almost an air of irreality?” the lawyer asked West. West said when he was made aware of the email, a part of ... «CBC.ca, Oct 14»
7
Arca underwhelms at Gray Area
... the music is necessarily heady, in fact most of the crowd was dancing pretty hard, but there is an “art school” bent to the onslaught of irreality. «San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sep 14»
8
Virtual Reality: You'll Believe A Geek Can Fly
The only concession to the irreality of the image was a digital "sticker" of the company logo at my invisible feet, which marked the limits of the ... «Huffington Post, Aug 14»
9
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption, by Robert Appelbaum
He grows into a new level of consciousness as “getting high and paying attention undid the irreality around me”. All this is spiced with gobbets ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»
10
Millennials Aren't Generation Y, We're Generation Omega
... to the incorporeal, computerized irreality of a universal Cloud. We have lived on the earth for a long time, but only recently in such imbalance. «The Nation., May 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Irreality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/irreality>. Apr 2024 ».
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