derealizev.
/diːˈriːəlʌɪz/ Philosophy.
To deprive of reality, make unreal.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > make real [verb (transitive)] > deprive of reality
unrealize1755
sublimate1831
derealize1889
disrealize1889
1889 W. James in Mind XIV. 351 Corroborated, not de~realised, by the ultimate principle of my belief.
1904 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) iv. 109 We have no transphenomenal absolute ready, to derealize the whole experienced world by, at a stroke.
Derivatives
deˈrealizer n. (see quot. 1909).
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1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe ii. 49 Pluralism, in exorcizing the absolute, exorcizes the great de-realizer of the only life we are at home in.
deˈrealizing adj.
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1964 B. Frechtman tr. J.-P. Sartre Saint Genet 161 And what if, by means of this makebelieve, he drew everything—trees, plants, utensils, animals, women and men—into a derealizing whirl?
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