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unreality

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Etymology

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From un- (lack of, not) +‎ reality.

Noun

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unreality (countable and uncountable, plural unrealities)

  1. Lack of reality or real existence.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
    • 1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures[1], Harper and Row, page 110:
      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.
    • 2014, Robert A.F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence:
      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.
  3. (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
  4. Unpractical character; visionariness.

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