unreality
Quality of phantoms
Unreality is the quality of seeming unreal, dreamlike, or disconnected from ordinary experience.
A sense of unreality may accompany shock, trauma, or disorientation: Everything had a strange unreality after the accident.
The word also describes things that lack substance or authenticity: the unreality of social media personas, the unreality of campaign promises.
Atmospheric optical deception
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- figmentImagined thing, unreal
apparition · deception · misperception · distortion · simulacrum · façade · charade · optical illusion
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- somnolentInclined toward sleep
ethereal · hallucinatory · phantasmagoric · lucid · visions · subconscious · drowsy · nightmare
Only self surely exists
- simulacrumImitative stand-in for reality
- hyperrealityRepresentations supplanting the genuine
- mayaPhenomenal world's deceptive nature
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
perception · existential · ontological · subjective · constructed · illusive · intangible · ephemeral
Imaginative play or fantasy
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- fantasticalExtravagantly unreal or imaginary
- fictionImagined narrative work
fairy-tale · enchantment · storybook · fable · tale · narrative · adventure · daydream
Wildly illogical
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
paradoxical · nonsensical · irrational · dreamscape · distorted · disorienting · strange · weird
Unverified traditional tale
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- mythosBody of foundational legends
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
- titansDominant powerful figures
nymphs · sirens · centaurs · minotaur · hydra · pegasus · griffin · phoenix
Imitation of real processes
- cyberspaceVirtual electronic network environment
- digitalOf discrete data
- VRSimulated immersive environment
- metaverseShared immersive digital universe
avatars · immersive · holographic · augmented · synthetic · artificial · computer-generated · rendered
mirage
Atmospheric optical deception
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
figment · apparition · deception · misperception · distortion · simulacrum · façade · charade · optical illusion · trickery
reverie
Abstracted, pleasant daydream
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- oneiricRelating to dreams
somnolent · ethereal · hallucinatory · phantasmagoric · lucid · visions · subconscious · drowsy · nightmare · slumber
solipsism
Only self surely exists
- simulacrumImitative stand-in for reality
- hyperrealityRepresentations supplanting the genuine
- mayaPhenomenal world's deceptive nature
phenomenology · perception · existential · ontological · subjective · constructed · illusive · intangible · ephemeral · insubstantial
make-believe
Imaginative play or fantasy
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- fantasticalExtravagantly unreal or imaginary
fiction · fairy-tale · enchantment · storybook · fable · tale · narrative · adventure · daydream · pretend
absurd
Wildly illogical
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
uncanny · paradoxical · nonsensical · irrational · dreamscape · distorted · disorienting · strange · weird · otherworldly
legend
Unverified traditional tale
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- mythosBody of foundational legends
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
titans · nymphs · sirens · centaurs · minotaur · hydra · pegasus · griffin · phoenix · pantheon
simulation
Imitation of real processes
- cyberspaceVirtual electronic network environment
- digitalOf discrete data
- VRSimulated immersive environment
metaverse · avatars · immersive · holographic · augmented · synthetic · artificial · computer-generated · rendered · pixelated
- unreal thingsillusion, delusion, fantasy, fiction, imaginary
- Altered Realitydreams, illusions, visions, mirages, hallucinations
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- anxiety signspanic, nervousness, worry, worrying, trembling
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, fantasy
unrealityreality
What actually exists
actuality · realness · existence · fact · materiality
unrealityreality
What actually exists
groundedness · presence · lucidity · clarity · vividness
unrealityrealism
Accepting things as they are
naturalism · verisimilitude · authenticity · truthfulness · literalism