unreality
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[edit]From un- (“lack of, not”) + reality.
Noun
[edit]unreality (countable and uncountable, plural unrealities)
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- (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.
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
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