Meanings
adjectiveantireal (comparative more antireal, superlative most antireal)
comparative more antireal · superlative most antireal
- Opposing or countering reality.
But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal.
1999, Harold Bloom, O. Henry, page 241 more example
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 […]
2003, Robert C. Greer, Mapping postmodernism: a survey of Christian options, page 124
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
- Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
- Englishanti-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
- Proto-Italic*reis
- Classical Latinrēs
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Late Latinreālis
- Old Frenchree
- Middle Englishreal
- Englishreal
- Englishantireal
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Cite this entry
APA
antireal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireal
MLA
“antireal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antireal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireal.
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