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hyperreal

adjective, noun

hyperreal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to philosophical hyperreality; perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-R-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does hyperreal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to philosophical hyperreality; perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal.

  2. 2

    Belonging to an extension of the real numbers containing those that cannot be produced by repeatedly adding 1; hence infinite.

  3. 3

    Having the appearance of hyperrealism.

noun

  1. 1

    A hyperreal number.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hyperreal

  • hyperreals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hyperreal?

Hyperreal appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Hyperreal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Germanhyperreell, hyperreelle Zahl

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does hyperreal come from?

From hyper- + real.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).