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hyperreality

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor. French réalitéder. English reality English hyperreality From hyper- + reality.

  1. derived from reality English hyperreality From hyper- + reality
  2. derived from réalitéder
  3. derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin reālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin reālitāslbor✻
  4. derived from *reis Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being hyperreal.

    • What Tarantino captured was something that was accelerating across all popular culture: not reality, but a kind of hyperreality, where the secondary meaning always mattered more than the first.

  2. The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in…

    The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.

  3. Hyperrealism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyperreality. 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