unrealnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪəlnəs/, U.S. /ˌənˈri(ə)lnəs/ The state or condition of being unreal or unrealistic.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > unreality
phantoma1375
non-reality1651
unreality1744
unrealness1802
irreality1803
1802 Monthly Mirror Apr. 264 Everything which is out of the common course of nature should, for this reason, be avoided, as nothing will so forcibly remind the spectator of the unrealness of the illusion.
1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 507 The empirical ego..appears as..establishing the realness of one, as determining the relative unrealness of the other.
1994 A. Halkin Enemy Reviewed vii. 131 Reviewers complained of an air of artificiality and unrealness about the novels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1802- toast
- toast always falls butter side down
- toast always falls buttered side down
- toast and ale
- toast and water
- toast melba
- toast-and-watered
- toast-burner
- toast-colour
- toast-coloured
- toast-crumb
- toast-drinking
- toast-fork
- toast-iron
- toast-list
- toast-man
- toast-master
- toast-master glass
- toast-mistress
- toast-rack
- toast-stand
- toast-water
- toastable
- toastandwatered
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