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antireal

antireal adjective: opposing or countering reality.

Adjective

antireal (comparative more antireal, superlative most antireal)

  1. Opposing or countering reality.
    • But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal.1999, Harold Bloom, O. Henry, page 24
    • Being antireal, it insists that the really real (the thing-in-itself) cannot be known in any definitive way. Instead, we only have differing lenses […]2003, Robert C. Greer, Mapping postmodernism: a survey of Christian options, page 124

Forms of antireal

comparativemore antireal
superlativemost antireal

Origin of antireal

From anti- + real.

Questions about antireal

What does antireal mean?
Antireal means opposing or countering reality.
What part of speech is antireal?
Antireal is an adjective.

Words near antireal in the dictionary

  1. antirattler
  2. antirattlers
  3. antirattling
  4. antirave
  5. antireactive
  6. antireal
  7. antirealism
  8. antirealisms
  9. antirealist
  10. antirealistic
  11. antirealists

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