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Definition: Unreality |
UnrealityNoun1. The quality possessed by something that is unreal. 2. The state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unreality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: UnrealitySynonym: irreality (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: reality (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unreality |
| English words defined with "unreality": depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis ♦ Imaginariness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unreality": Horn-gate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
William Shatner | Oh, I had fun with them, but you have got to be careful because it's fun. The fun is the reality of it and yet is the unreality of it. So that line is very, very hazy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unreality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unreality" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 107 | 31,463 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unreality": Feelings of unreality. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "unreality": unreality-away. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unreality | 11 |
feelings unreality | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unreality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | irealitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير واقعية, الوهم, التطلع للوهم, الخيال (cavalryman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нереалност, недействителност (invalidation, invalidity, nullity), илюзорност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neskuteènost, nereálnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uvirkelighedsfølelse (unreality-feeling), foelelse af uvirkelighed (derealization, feeling of unreality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onwerkelijkheidsgevoel (feeling of unreality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عدم واقعیت , عدم حقیقت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | irréalité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unwirklichkeit (insubstantiality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανύπαρκτο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי מעשיות (impracticability, impracticality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | képzelgés (fiction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | irrealt (irretrievable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 現実離れ (becoming disconnected from reality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | '"じつばなれ (becoming disconnected from reality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealityunray quimera (phantasm, vapor, vapour), irrealidade (bubble), ilusão (delusion, error, fallacy, lie, maya, phantasm, semblance), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical), aspecto imaginário. (various references) что-л. нереальное, нереальность. (various references) nestvarnost, nerealnost. (various references) irrealidad (fantasia, fantasy, phantasy). (various references) gerçekte olmayan şey, gerçeksizlik, gerçek olmama. (various references) щось нереальне, нереальність (nothing). (various references) tính chất không thực, những điều h o huyền. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | figmenti, figmento, figmentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unreality" (pronounced u'nrēa"lutē) |
| 7 | -r ē a" l u t ē | extraterritoriality, materiality, reality. |
| 6 | -ē a" l u t ē | collegiality, confidentiality, congeniality, geniality, impartiality, partiality, speciality, triviality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, commonality, conditionality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, universality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: auntlier, interlay, retinula, tenurial. | |
-2 letters: alunite, inertly, inlayer, irately, latrine, neutral, ratline, reality, reliant, retinal, riantly, ruinate, taurine, tearily, trenail, unitary, uralite, uranite, urinate. | |
-3 letters: aerily, aliner, antler, artily, auntie, auntly, eluant, elytra, entail, larine, learnt, lenity, linear, linter, litany, lunate, lunier, lutein, lyrate, nailer, nature, nearly, neatly, neural, nitery, nutria, ratine, ratlin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: neutrality, tenurially, unliterary. | |
+2 letters: anticruelty, interlunary, uncertainly. | |
+3 letters: elocutionary, evolutionary, inaccurately, interfaculty, neurotically, prudentially, ruminatively, unhysterical, unilaterally, universality, valetudinary. | |
+4 letters: centrifugally, devolutionary, documentarily, enumerability, importunately, intersexually, intravenously, mensurability, refundability, revolutionary, rudimentarily, subordinately, unassertively, unfalteringly, uniparentally, unpredictably, unreliability, unsymmetrical, vulnerability. | |
+5 letters: aeronautically, antiregulatory, clairaudiently, coevolutionary, curvilinearity, denumerability, evolutionarily, excruciatingly, inarticulately, instrumentally, interpupillary, intersexuality, intertextually, pertinaciously, phenylthiourea, rectangularity, remuneratively, supernormality, transsexuality, unalterability, unattractively, uncrystallized, undesirability, unflatteringly, unhysterically, unrestrainedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084716778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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