irreality

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Recent Examples of irreality Rude reality — or irreality? — breaks the spell again, but Beau somehow escapes fresh threats against his life and lands back at the palatial home of his mother in the town that bears the titan of industry’s name, Wasserton. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023 Reality was ugly, but irreality is a numb trap, fertile for regret. Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 Chung, despite her own laserlike precision, is interested in permeable boundaries: the membranes between reality and irreality, pushy parent and yielding child, sanity and illness. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022 There was no amazing aftertaste of citrus-sharp malice after trips to Disneyland, no sense of irreality pouncing upon the real and quite deliberately eating it for breakfast. Helen Oyeyemi, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2021 This unearthly tension between reality and irreality is exacerbated by the setting. Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreality
Noun
  • But as with its aww-shucks hero, there’s more to it than meets the eye; something much stranger lurks behind the slight Twilight Zone unreality of its very movie-ish Midwest.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • All those books teaching parents how to take care of their children—the first year, the first eighteen months, the first five or ten years—none of them addresses this difficulty: for parents and for children, the border between reality and unreality is not always clearly marked.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Irreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreality. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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