Synonyms of unreality

unreality

noun

ˌən-rē-ˈa-lə-tē 

as in illusion

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

a sci-fi author who seems to have preferred the unrealities of his own fiction to the realities of the world about him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illusion
• dream
• fantasy
• daydream
• vision
• delusion
• idea
• hallucination
• phantasm
• mirage
• nightmare
• conceit
• chimera
• castle in the air
• pipe dream
• figment
• castle in Spain
• nonentity
• imaging
• fiction
• fancy
• concoction
• utopia
• ignis fatuus
• visualization
• fabrication
• cloudland
• fable
• brainchild
• cloud-cuckoo-land
• will-o'-the-wisp
• invention
• envisaging
• Shangri-la
• daymare

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fact
• reality
• actuality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unreality

The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this, and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of nightmarish unreality. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026

The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of unreality. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026

As to the actual debate, there was an aura of unreality among the Democrats. — John Seiler, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026

The cast was always too old to play high school students, but the unreality was part of the appeal, and the setting forced them to face each other every single day, fueling bitter feuds and spilling secrets out into the open. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2026