consensus reality

noun

The set of things considered to be real according to the majority of individuals.

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Meanings

nounconsensus reality (countable and uncountable, plural consensus realities)

plural consensus realities

  1. countableuncountableThe set of things considered to be real according to the majority of individuals.
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    It used to be difficult to build an alternate consensus reality. It required massive investment in the means of media production and circulation, and even then you were constrained by the looming advantage that legacy purveyors of truth had — all those established institutions colluding in the manufacture of the status quo.

    2017 March 27, Rob Horning, “Viral Oppression”, in The New Inquiry, retrieved 18 Feb 2022
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APA

consensus reality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consensus%20reality

MLA

“consensus reality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consensus%20reality. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “consensus reality,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consensus%20reality.

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