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hyperreality

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Etymology

From hyper- +‎ reality.

Noun

hyperreality (countable and uncountable, plural hyperrealities)

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  1. The state or condition of being hyperreal.
    • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
      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.
  2. (semiotics, philosophy) The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.
  3. Hyperrealism.

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