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telereality

telereality noun: the supposed reality conveyed by television.

Noun

telereality (uncountable)

  1. The supposed reality conveyed by television.
    • The "real" world unfolds in the swarming dots of a twenty-five inch screen in trinitronic telereality.1987, Telos, Volume 20, Number 73, Washington University, page 61
    • This suprasensory reminiscence, this journey of the soul through places, bodies and successive lives, this fantasy ubiquity, has nothing to do with the ubiquity that is ours through the networks, through telepresence and telereality.2005, Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact, page 207

Origin of telereality

From tele- + reality.

Questions about telereality

What does telereality mean?
Telereality means the supposed reality conveyed by television.
What part of speech is telereality?
Telereality is a noun.

Words near telereality in the dictionary

  1. teleradios
  2. teleradiotherapy
  3. teleradium
  4. Teleran
  5. teleras
  6. telereality
  7. telereceiver
  8. telereceivers
  9. telereception
  10. telereceptive
  11. telerecord

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