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English
Etymology
From Latin irrealis, from in- (“un-: not”) + reālis (“real, material, tangible, composed of physical things”), from res (“thing”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”). Doublet of irrealis.
Adjective
irreal (comparative more irreal, superlative most irreal)
- (philosophy) Synonym of intangible, immaterial, not composed of things, having no concrete existence.
2012, T. Dant, Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen, →ISBN:'Irreal' objects draw on our previous sensual experience but have never existed; they are created through the spontaneous intentional operations of the imagination.
2013, J. Mensch, The Question of Being in Husserl’s Logical Investigations, →ISBN, page 8:It is a shift to the ego conceived as irreal, as non-worldly.
2014, J. Pike, P. Kelly, The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food, →ISBN:The irreal spatiality of school dining rooms, including such things as décor, furnishings, modes of ordering, manner of queuing, ambience, 'feel', can also, as we have seen, actively limit these governmental ambitions.
2015, Sarah Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography, →ISBN:It is impossible to directly access the imaginations of others, to know precisely if and how an imagined 'irreal' future is felt by an individual or shared by a 'collective', or to know if one has shared it oneself.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: ir‧re‧al
Adjective
irreal m or f (plural irreais)
- unreal (not real)
- Antonym: real
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From ir- + real.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ireˈal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: i‧rre‧al
Adjective
irreal m or f (masculine and feminine plural irreales)
- unreal
- Antonym: real
- fantastic
- Synonym: fantástico
Derived terms
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