Noun

(wikipedia cyberspace)

A world of information through the Internet.

(by extension) The internet as a whole.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.}}

(science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = Cyberspace . A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... }}

Noun

(en-noun)

A reality created in cyberspace.

* 1998 , Melanie Keen, Frequencies: investigations into culture, history and technology

There is an irony lost to most who associate the new world of cyberreality with unmitigated independence and freedom

* 2005 , Klaus Benesch, Kerstin Schmidt, Space in America: theory, history, culture (page 86)

In view of such topics, the suspicion does not seem far-fetched that cyberrealities leave us with much the same problems we already had in other forms of reality, especially with problems of class, race, gender, sex and crime.