Alternate Reality

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AR
Pronunciation
/ˈɔltərˌneɪt ˌriˈæləˌti/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. The story throws Shrek into an alternate reality in which he was never born, and thus has no friends or family, and no source of happiness.
  2. A study in the Journal of Communication found that women who engage in a role-playing game online actually spend more time in the alternate reality than the guy players do.
  3. Since the beginning of reform and opening policy, China has went through several times of inflation and deflation, facing the alternate reality of inflation and deflation, the traditional policy tools is obviously insufficient and invalid.
  4. The death described by Kawabata is shrouded with horrible atmosphere, permeated with woeful sincerity, and expresses the impermanent outlook of life and death, with alternate reality and illusory, and with grief but beauty.
  5. Many other alternate forms of reality and consciousness coincide and coexist within the same space that your present earth occupies.

Other meanings of AR