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  2. Aletheia - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] It also means "reality". [2] It is the antonym of lethe, [citation needed] which literally means "forgetting", "forgetfulness". [3] In Greek mythology, aletheia was personified as a Greek goddess, Aletheia, the goddess of Truth. She was a daughter of Zeus. Her Roman equivalent is Veritas. [4]

  3. Life imitating art - Wikipedia

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    The idea of life imitating art is a philosophical position or observation about how real behaviors or real events sometimes (or even commonly) resemble, or feel inspired by, works of fiction and art.

  4. Denialism - Wikipedia

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    In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to deny reality as a way to avoid believing in a psychologically uncomfortable truth. [1] Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or event when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality.

  5. Pseudorealism - Wikipedia

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    Computer generated imagery and 3D animation are used not only to bolster reality based images but also to create imaginary worlds. We understand the CGI feature film to be an image of pseudorealism in Bazin’s terms – a fundamental deception of the eye.

  6. Reality - Wikipedia

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    Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. [1] In physical terms, reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown. [2]

  7. Dystopia - Wikipedia

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    Dystopic, dystopian fiction and its place in reality. Dystopias, in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Climate Change Dystopia, discusses current popularity of the dystopian genre. Alexandru Bumbas, Penser l'anachronisme comme moteur esthétique de la dystopie théâtrale: quelques considérations sur Bond, Barker, Gabily, et Delbo (In French)

  8. Oxymoron - Wikipedia

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    Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").

  9. Category:Reality - Wikipedia

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    Articles related to reality, the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence .