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unreality

unreality noun: lack of reality or real existence.

Noun

unreality (countable and uncountable, plural unrealities)

  1. Lack of reality or real existence.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
    • Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Science_and_Health_with_Key_to_the_Scriptures_(...
    • Then, the Lord, for the sake of those involved in the Universal Vehicle, turned a second wheel of Dharma, even more wondrous and amazing, by proclaiming emptiness, starting from the fact of the unreality, productionlessness, ceaselessness, primordial peace, and natural liberation of all things.2014, Robert A.F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence
  3. (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
  4. Unpractical character; visionariness.

unreality meaning in Hindi and Tamil

unreality in Hindi

unreality, imaginariness, illusoriness, falsity
अवास्तविकता avāstaviktā

unreality in Tamil

சித்திரம்

Synonyms of unreality

Forms of unreality

pluralunrealities

Origin of unreality

From un- (“lack of, not”) + reality.

Questions about unreality

What does unreality mean?
Unreality means lack of reality or real existence.
What is unreality in Hindi?
Unreality in Hindi is अवास्तविकता (avāstaviktā). See Unreality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unreality?
Unreality is a noun.
What is the plural of unreality?
The plural of unreality is unrealities.

Words near unreality in the dictionary

  1. unrealistic
  2. unrealistically
  3. unrealisticness
  4. unrealists
  5. unrealities
  6. unreality
  7. unrealizability
  8. unrealizable
  9. unrealizably
  10. unrealize
  11. unrealized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unreality (page history and authors); अवास्तविकता (Hindi) (page history and authors); unreality (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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