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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara

Meaning of "unreality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNREALITY

unreality  [ˌʌnrɪˈælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNREALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unreality 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 UNREALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

unreality

Derealization

Derealization or derealisation is an alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal. Other symptoms include feeling as though one's environment is lacking in spontaneity, emotional coloring and depth. It is a dissociative symptom of many conditions, such as psychiatric and neurological disorders, and not a standalone disorder. Derealization is a subjective experience of unreality of the outside world, while depersonalization is unreality in one's sense of self. Although most authors currently regard derealization and depersonalization as independent constructs, many do not want to separate derealization from depersonalization. The main reason for this is nosological, because these symptoms often co-occur, but there is another, more philosophical reason: the idea that the phenomenological experience of self, others, and world is one continuous whole. Thus, feelings of unreality may blend in and the person may puzzle over deciding whether it is the self or the world that feels unreal to them. Chronic derealization may be caused by occipital–temporal dysfunction.

Definition of unreality in the English dictionary

The definition of unreality in the dictionary is the quality or state of being unreal, fanciful, or impractical. Other definition of unreality is something that is unreal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNREALITY


bestiality
ˌbɛstɪˈælɪtɪ
collegiality
kəˌliːdʒɪˈælɪtɪ
confidentiality
ˌkɒnfɪdenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
congeniality
kənˌdʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
conviviality
kənvɪvɪˈælɪtɪ
essentiality
ɪˌsenʃɪˈælɪtɪ
geniality
dʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ
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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNREALITY

unreadably
unreadily
unreadiness
unready
unreal
unrealisable
unrealised
unrealism
unrealistic
unrealistically
unrealizable
unrealize
unrealized
unreally
unreaped
unreason
unreasonable
unreasonable behaviour
unreasonableness
unreasonably

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNREALITY

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 unreality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unreality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNREALITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

虚幻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irrealidad
570 millions of speakers

English

unreality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कल्पना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير واقعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нереальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irrealidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রকৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irréalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak semestinya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unwirklichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非現実性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비현실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unreality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự hư không
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்மையில்லாத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनागोंदी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gerçeksizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irrealtà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nierealność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нереальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

irealitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξωπραγματικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onwerklikheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overklighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uvirkelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unreality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREALITY»

The term «unreality» is regularly used and occupies the 81.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREALITY» OVER TIME

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

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9 QUOTES WITH «UNREALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unreality.
1
Toni Cade Bambara
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
2
Al Gore
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
3
Robert E. Howard
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
4
Charlie Pierce
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
5
Morley Safer
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
6
Allan Sherman
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
7
Lee Siegel
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
8
Bill Sienkiewicz
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
9
Ernst Toller
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNREALITY»

Discover the use of unreality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unreality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of ...
The claims made for television when it was a fledgling industry in the early 1950s have virtually all proven false.
Ian I. Mitroff, Warren G. Bennis, 1993
2
Unreality and Time
This book recognizes and questions a key assumption about time which is shared by common sense and philosophy—the assumption that time, like a single substance or a homogeneous quality, is subject to the law of contradiction.
Robert S. Brumbaugh, 1984
3
Communicating Unreality: Modern Media and the Reconstruction ...
Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almost inseparable.
Gabriel Weimann, 1999
4
Overcoming Depersonalization Disorder: A Mindfulness and ...
Whether your depersonalization developed after a traumatic experience or is something you've always lived with, this book can help you reconnect with life again.
Katharine Donnelly, Fugen Neziroglu, 2010
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Overcoming Depersonalization and Feelings of Unreality
CBT is an effective treatment. PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: 'The best consumer-friendly CBT-based books&All are very thorough.' Observer 'The Overcoming series just keeps getting better and better.' The Psychologist
Anthony David, 2012
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How ...
In Virtual Unreality, Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis that captivated readers in Proofiness and Zero to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut a path through the trickery, fakery, ...
Charles Seife, 2014
7
Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, ...
28. Milič. Čapek. The. Unreality. And. Indeterminacy. Of. The. Future. In. The. Light. Of. Contemporary. Physics. Choosing the title for this paper caused me some difficulty. I was originally thinking about calling it "The Inescapability of Time in ...
David Ray Griffin, 1986
8
Chronic Anxiety Unreality Sensations and other Odd Symptoms: ...
This book is intended to help anxiety disorder sufferers to recognize/understand what are called "unreality symptoms" and other unusual chronic anxiety manifestations, such as "catastrophic thinking" and becoming "sensitized to anxiety" ...
James M. Lowrance, 2014
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Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others ...
Unreality is all of these things and more. One of the most distinctive features of unreality is that all of the types just listed are strongly interdependent. In effect, each form of unreality is intertwined with all of the other forms. nonetheless, in this ...
Ian I. Mitroff, Abraham Silvers, 2010
10
Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome
Introduction The predominant view has been to conceive of depersonalization as a psychological disturbance of self-awareness (Simeon et al., 1997), usually described as a pervasive feeling of unreality. Indeed, although 'feelings of unreality' ...
Mauricio Sierra, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNREALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unreality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Unreality check: The made-up case against Tim Cook
Can you believe Tim Cook is still CEO of Apple? Man, how many times does this guy have to screw up to get fired? Writing for The Huffington Post (motto: “Come ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
2
#NiallWeLoveYourVoice LOOK! BEST One Direction OTRA Oslo …
Lynn is an editor and writer here at Unreality TV and is a trained psychotherapist and the author of two books. She's addicted to soaps, period drama and reality ... «Unreality TV, Jun 15»
3
IMF quits Greece talks amid 'air of unreality' as deal unravels
Only a week ago, officials on both sides of the negotiating table believed that a solution to Greece's agonising stand-off with its creditors was mercifully at hand. «Financial Times, Jun 15»
4
Television: RTÉ's unreality series is not your grandad's immigrant …
Made in another era – six years ago, say – a series called Exiles (RTÉ2, Thursday) might have had a different meaning: construction workers forced to head to ... «Irish Times, May 15»
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“Split statement is coming” says One Direction insider! “Jealousy …
Lynn is an editor and writer here at Unreality TV and is a trained psychotherapist and the author of two books. She's addicted to soaps, period drama and reality ... «Unreality TV, May 15»
6
Louis Tomlinson & Harry Styles reunite as One Direction promise …
Unreality tv…youre so stupid! Dont you guys know this crap is old? Some larry shippers say that may is the month that supposedly LARRY is coming out and that ... «Unreality TV, May 15»
7
LaFleche: The mad unreality of women's fashion
A model presents a creation by French designer Lea Peckre as part of her Spring/Summer 2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week ... «St. Catharines Standard, Apr 15»
8
Bridges and budgets: The deep unreality of Republican …
Every once in a while, you're hit over the head with just how damaging the dysfunctional, unresponsive politics we live with today really are. Here's a headline ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
9
CNN Goes Unreality on Cruz and Jobs
So I will “fact check” the unreality that's being pushed by CNNMoney regarding Cruz's common sense economic plan as put out by his announcement. «Town Hall, Mar 15»
10
Virtual unreality: how brands can thrive in a world of blurred …
As the delineation between consumers' real and online lives becomes less clear, marketers must strive to keep pace, writes Suzy Bashford. We live in a world ... «Marketing, Mar 15»

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