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antireal

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntider. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Late Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real English antireal From anti- + real.

  1. derived from real English real English antireal From anti- + real
  2. derived from reelbor
  3. derived from *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder✻
  4. derived from *reis Late Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻
  5. derived from *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntider✻

Definitions

  1. Opposing or countering reality.

    • But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal.
    • Being antireal, it insists that the really real (the thing-in-itself) cannot be known in any definitive way. Instead, we only have differing lenses […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antireal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA