cyberreality

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noun

A reality created in cyberspace.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nouncyberreality (usually uncountable, plural cyberrealities)

plural cyberrealities

  1. uncountableusuallyA reality created in cyberspace.

    There is an irony lost to most who associate the new world of cyberreality with unmitigated independence and freedom[…]

    1998, Melanie Keen, Frequencies: investigations into culture, history and technology
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    In view of such topics, the suspicion does not seem far-fetched that cyberrealities leave us with much the same problems we already had in other forms of reality, especially with problems of class, race, gender, sex and crime.

    2005, Klaus Benesch, Kerstin Schmidt, Space in America: theory, history, culture, page 86

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνάω (kubernáō)
  2. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  3. Englishcyberneticclip.
  4. Englishcyber-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
  7. Proto-Italic*reis
  8. Classical Latinrēs
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  11. Latinreālis
  12. Medieval Latinreālitā
  13. Frenchréalité
  14. Englishreality
  15. Englishcyberreality

From cyber- + reality.

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APA

cyberreality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberreality

MLA

“cyberreality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberreality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberreality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberreality.

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