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Unreality in a sentence

Unreality meaning

  1. Lack of reality or real existence.
  2. The state of being unreal.
  3. That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary

Synonyms of Unreality

reality immateriality incorporeality irreality nonexistence nonentity

Related words

Other words often associated with Unreality or its synonyms:

materiality corporeality nonbeing quality existence cypher world nothing commoner realness cipher actuality

Using Unreality

  • The main meaning on this page is: Lack of reality or real existence. | The state of being unreal. | That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
  • Useful related words include: reality, immateriality, incorporeality, irreality.
  • In the example corpus, unreality often appears in combinations such as: unreality of, of unreality, the unreality.

Context around Unreality

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

sheer 1× gaudy 1× costumed 1× aesthetic 1×

Often after:

makes 1× especially 1×

Sentence patterns with Unreality

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

in the unreality of time 2× air of unreality about canberra 1× dimension of unreality especially during 1× does the unreality of leftism 1× modes of unreality and or 1× of costumed unreality 1× of this unreality 1× reality and unreality 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and jack nicholson 1× doesn t the 1× i look back 1× idealist writers such 1× in the unreality 1× intricate lines overbuilt 1×

Common sentence endings:

a normal person 1× and philosophical ideas 1× artificially enhanced movement 1× concretely defining reality 1× dislocation from reality 1× edge strike poets 1×

Words around Unreality

Just before it in the word index:

unrealistically 22 unrealistic 335 unrealised 14 unreal 167 unready 27 unreadable 38

Just after it in the word index:

unrealizable 2 unrealized 74 unreason 5 unreasonable 361 unreasonableness 5 unreasonably 61

Similar in corpus frequency:

aare 28 aarti 28 abl 28 academicians 28 accusatory 28 achingly 28

Corpus analysis for Unreality

  • In this selection, "unreality" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, sheer, gaudy, costumed, makes and especially stand out and add context to how "unreality" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include in the unreality of time and air of unreality about canberra. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "unreality" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with unreality

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

There is an air of unreality about Canberra. (8 words)

I look back on that event with a sense of unreality. (11 words)

And then there’s the sheer unreality of the whole thing. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

And Jack Nicholson’s Joker makeup moves things into a whole new dimension of unreality, especially during the scenes when his Joker wears flesh-toned face paint to falsely give the idea that he’s a normal person. (38 words)

She will also star in a bloodcurdling, time-twisting horror film about slavery that’s due in theaters August 21. The rest of us are still unpacking what it means to live in a state of unreality. (37 words)

Irrealism is a term that has been used by various writers in the fields of philosophy, literature, and art to denote specific modes of unreality and/or the problems in concretely defining reality. (33 words)

Question examples

Doesn’t the unreality of it, a landmine at a cliff-edge, strike poets? (14 words)

Or does the unreality of leftism lead to wider dislocation from reality? (12 words)

Example sentences (20)

I look back on that event with a sense of unreality.

And then there’s the sheer unreality of the whole thing.

Intricate lines, overbuilt structures, and exaggerated, gigantic features all helped to convey the gaudy unreality of Krypton.

She will also star in a bloodcurdling, time-twisting horror film about slavery that’s due in theaters August 21. The rest of us are still unpacking what it means to live in a state of unreality.

This mildly Lynchian sense of unreality makes Sarah’s theories about cloning and aliens feel more plausible.

Doesn’t the unreality of it, a landmine at a cliff-edge, strike poets?

Or does the unreality of leftism lead to wider dislocation from reality?

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And Jack Nicholson’s Joker makeup moves things into a whole new dimension of unreality, especially during the scenes when his Joker wears flesh-toned face paint to falsely give the idea that he’s a normal person.

Seamless aesthetic unreality is being phased out in favor of uncannily realistic aspirational clutter.

The frighteningly stark angular melodies serve as paintbrushes in the bleak soundscapes of this unreality.

Whannell plays with film speed and uses incredibly innovative camerawork to underline the unreality of Grey’s artificially enhanced movement.

Idealist writers such as J. M. E. McTaggart in The Unreality of Time have argued that time is an illusion.

In The Unreality of Time he argued that time is an illusion because it is impossible to produce a coherent account of a sequence of events.

Irrealism is a term that has been used by various writers in the fields of philosophy, literature, and art to denote specific modes of unreality and/or the problems in concretely defining reality.

Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts, features several layers of reality and unreality and philosophical ideas.

Selected Nonfictions, p. 201. In a 1944 essay, Borges postulated, Nazism suffers from unreality, like Erigena 's hell.

Some critics argued that the validity of these experiments hinged on the acting ability of the learner and experimenter and that most subjects probably sensed the unreality of the situation.

There is an air of unreality about Canberra.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) utilizes an array of science fiction concepts and features several layers of reality and unreality.

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Common combinations with unreality

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "unreality" in a sentence?
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What does "unreality" mean?
Unreality means: Lack of reality or real existence.
What are synonyms of "unreality"?
Common synonyms of "unreality" include: reality, immateriality, incorporeality, irreality, nonexistence, nonentity.
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