unreality.

1. A quality of seeming dreamlike or disconnected from ordinary experience.

2. A lack of correspondence with actual conditions or facts.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a sense of unreality
• an atmosphere of unreality

On the page

The cheerful music gave the empty station a disturbing sense of unreality.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: usually uncountable; countable singular unreality, plural unrealities for specific unrealistic things. Writing functions: atmosphere, interpretation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Important experiential and evaluative senses separated.