Definitions
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- adjective Above or beyond what is
real . - adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to the superreal numbers, a
generalization of thehyperreal numbers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was difficult, horrifying work, the Nazi atrocities made superreal with the tools of DeSade and Bataille, very much an extension of the “New Worlds school” and its intent to use fantasy as a way to present the real world in a new light for our consideration.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009
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The lean Arctic light, long and horizontal and visually stunning, gives everything a superreal quality of detail that I suppose you might get used to over time, but for now it is arresting.
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel 2010
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The lean Arctic light, long and horizontal and visually stunning, gives everything a superreal quality of detail that I suppose you might get used to over time, but for now it is arresting.
Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel Beth Kapusta 2010
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The tape is superreal, or maybe underreal is the way you want to put it.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The tape is superreal, or maybe underreal is the way you want to put it.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The tape is superreal, or maybe underreal is the way you want to put it.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Much of the movie is like a hallucinatory scuba dive, but it's equally eyepopping above the surface and within the superreal confines of the dentist's tank, where Nemo and his fellow prisoners plot their high-risk escape.
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For example, we might argue that the experience was a distortion or hallucination, or we can argue that what we experienced was superreal—more real than our everyday reality.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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For example, we might argue that the experience was a distortion or hallucination, or we can argue that what we experienced was superreal—more real than our everyday reality.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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Finally the camera panned, and with horror the Americans recognized the rotten dock, wire windows and leaning chimney of the gold panner's hut in the Reindeerlands, unmistakable, rendered before them in crude and superreal clarity.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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