irrealis
Meanings
adj
- Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is not a fact.
noun
- An irrealis construct.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin irreālis (“intangible, immaterial”), from Latin in- (“un-: not”) + reālis (“real, material, composed of physical things”), from res (“thing”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”). Doublet of irreal.
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