(cache)IRREALITY Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

irreality

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as in unreality

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Recent Examples of irreality Rude reality — or irreality? — breaks the spell again, but Beau somehow escapes fresh threats against his life and lands back at the palatial home of his mother in the town that bears the titan of industry’s name, Wasserton. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023 Reality was ugly, but irreality is a numb trap, fertile for regret. —Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 Chung, despite her own laserlike precision, is interested in permeable boundaries: the membranes between reality and irreality, pushy parent and yielding child, sanity and illness. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022 There was no amazing aftertaste of citrus-sharp malice after trips to Disneyland, no sense of irreality pouncing upon the real and quite deliberately eating it for breakfast. —Helen Oyeyemi, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2021 This unearthly tension between reality and irreality is exacerbated by the setting. —Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020

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unreality

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As to the actual debate, there was an aura of unreality among the Democrats.

— John Seiler, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
The theme-park-like aesthetic added to the unreality of Annie's situation, living mostly in solitary confinement for the years after the world ended.

— Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026

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