Meaning & use
unreality
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The quality or state of not being real; a sense of something being illusory or dreamlike.
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A strange sense of unreality washed over her after the accident.
The film captures the unreality of grief in its disorienting first act.
A note on using this word
Unreality often describes a psychological state, such as feeling detached from one's surroundings during shock or trauma (related to the clinical term 'derealization').
Words with a similar meaning
illusionunrealness
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