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Unreal vs Gossamer - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between unreal and gossamer

is that unreal is fake; not real while gossamer is tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

As a noun gossamer is

a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

unreal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • fake; not real
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • *:"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
  • (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
    • I just had an unreal hamburger.

    Antonyms

    * real

    Anagrams

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    gossamer

    English

    Noun

  • A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
  • A soft, sheer fabric.
  • Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

    • Derived terms

    * gossamery (adjective)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
  • * (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
    • The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}

    Synonyms

    * gossamery