surreality

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English

Etymology

From French surréalité, equivalent to surreal +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

Noun

surreality (countable and uncountable, plural surrealities)

  1. The state of being incongruous or surreal.
    The surreality of the crash scene dawned upon him only when he saw a holy figure in the smoke.
    • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 227:
      And when he goes to greet his mother the surreality of it all stares him in the face: in two years she's turned into a little old lady.
  2. That which is surreal; a surreal entity, event or other fact.
    The surrealities of life are the paradoxes thereof.

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