Word Meanings - UNREALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNREALITY)

• Sham
• Phantom
• ghost
• delusion
• illusion
• mockery
• shadow
• pretence
• counterfeit
• unreality
• Vanity
• Emptiness
• unsubstantiality
• falsity
• conceit
• self-sufficiency
• ostentation
• pride
• worthlessness
• triviality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNREALITY)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to UNREALITY)

• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• GHOSTLESS
  Without life or spirit.
• GHOSTOLOGY
  Ghost lore. It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• ILLUSIONIST
  One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• ILLUSION
  A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination,
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• UNMASK
  To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
• DETECTION
  The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.
• PRIDE
  A small European lamprey ; -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
• GHOSTLINESS
  The quality of being ghostly.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• DISILLUSION
  The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.