Meaning of hyperreality | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or condition of being hyperreal.
   countable, uncountable
2. The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures.
   countable, uncountable
3. Hyperrealism.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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