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• n  the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

• Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality.
• Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends.

• unreality

• reality