hyperreality
The state or condition of being hyperreal.
Noun
- 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. - 2022, Chuck Klosterman,...
- The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.
- Hyperrealism.
Origin
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.