Definition of "hyperreality" [hyperreality]

• The state or condition of being hyperreal. (noun)
• The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. (noun)
• Hyperrealism. (noun)

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• "Lost beneath it all is the real John Lennon, a persistent problem for a pop and political culture so drenched in hyperreality that it can't stop saying Really? or Real Americans or Keeping It Real or other market-oriented deviations of the term."
• "Instead people live in the "hyperreality" of simulations in which images, spectacles, and the play of signs replace the concepts of production and class conflict as key constituents of contemporary societies."
• "Lucy and her home and the atmosphere within it seemed to have a kind of hyperreality, as if I had stepped into a photograph featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and I wondered how much of it was real and how much was just me."