Word.ws English Dictionary

semireality

semireality noun: something not quite real, having a partial resemblance to reality.

Noun

semireality (uncountable)

  1. Something not quite real, having a partial resemblance to reality.
    • The series, along with such like-minded shows as the MTV semireality show “The Hills” and a cautionary senior edition, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” are focused on friends, and most of all on frenemies.2008 May 18, Alessandra Stanley, “What Are Friends For? Power and Pain”, in New York Times

Origin of semireality

From semi- + reality.

Questions about semireality

What does semireality mean?
Semireality means something not quite real, having a partial resemblance to reality.
What part of speech is semireality?
Semireality is a noun.

Words near semireality in the dictionary

  1. semirational
  2. semiraw
  3. semirealism
  4. semirealistic
  5. semirealistically
  6. semireality
  7. semireasonable
  8. semirecent
  9. semirecessive
  10. Semirechye
  11. semireclined

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: semireality (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “semireality.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/semireality. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.