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hyperreality

noun

hyperreality is a noun meaning “The state or condition of being hyperreal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-R-E-A-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperreality is hyperrealities.

What does hyperreality mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state or condition of being hyperreal.

  2. 2

    The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.

  3. 3

    Hyperrealism.

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

Forms of hyperreality

  • hyperrealities plural

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

How common is hyperreality?

Hyperreality appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).