antireal

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ real

Adjective

antireal (comparative more antireal, superlative most antireal)

1. Opposing or countering reality.
   • 1999, Harold Bloom, O. Henry, page 24:

     But finally to return to literary conventions, it is plot, more than anything else, that came to seem antireal.

   • 2003, Robert C. Greer, Mapping postmodernism: a survey of Christian options, page 124:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• retainal