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unrealism

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- 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 Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English realism English unrealism From un- (“not”) + realism.

  1. derived from reelbor
  2. derived from *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder✻
  3. derived from *reis Late Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻

Definitions

  1. Unrealisticness.

    • Even the most sympathetic scholars of Middle English found it hard to forgive romance authors for this reckless melange; most felt the need to explain away the unrealisms.
    • It is exactly these “other” meanings, connotations, that POs are designed to allow us to consider, but before talking specifically about POs let's think a little about what Poole calls “unrealisms” [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unrealism. 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