sense of unreality

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandunreality

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/
us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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unreality
noun[U]
uk
/ˌʌn.riˈæl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌʌn.riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the quality of not being or seeming to ...
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(Definition ofsenseandunrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To thissenseofunrealityis added yet another feature.
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Thissenseofunrealityis due to two factors.
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We are living in these days in asenseofunreality.
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There has been asenseofunrealityabout the debate.
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An attempt to interfere with my employés and lessen their hours of labour strikes me with a completesenseofunreality.
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I am oppressed here by asenseofunreality.
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There was asenseofunrealityas one walked into that small village.
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I think the answer is that we are discussing all these affairs in a certainsenseofunreality.
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There are two words which give one asenseofunrealityin listening to this debate and other debates in recent weeks.
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It prevents us from getting hijacked by asenseofunrealityin a debate that the amendments are designed to promote.
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There is a growingsenseofunrealityspreading over all our proceedings.
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I think it shows an entiresenseofunrealityto divorce in this way what is done publicly from what is done privately.
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Looking around, one has a certainsenseofunreality.
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The distinguishing feature of some of the speeches is theirsenseofunreality.
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The debate has shown one thing and that is thesenseofunrealityabout the debate that we had yesterday.
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There is an element of politicking in this and asenseofunrealityabout the issues that must be faced.
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There is asenseofunrealityabout today's debate.
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In the debate so far there is a strikingsenseofunreality.
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Listening to the last speech, one almost feels thesenseofunrealityand lack of appreciation of the situation in which we find ourselves.
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I think that most of us have a certainsenseofunrealityin this debate.
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