hyperreality

noun — 3 senses

hyperreality

noun

Etymology From hyper- + reality.

1

The state or condition of being hyperreal.

  • 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.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
2

Human sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sciences, Semiotics The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.

3

Hyperrealism.

Related terms
hyperrealist

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