unrealize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To alter one's own viewpoint after a previous realization; to change one's mind.
Example Sentences
- "His fancy, habitually moving about in worlds not realized, unrealizes everything at a touch."
- "But De Quincey generally sees a much deeper technical significance, an idealizing or unrealizing effect in the language."
- "Every action that realizes a dream or desire unrealizes it in reality."
- "I easily realized that all of his statements were wrong. How do you unrealize that?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real English unreal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English unrealize From unreal + -ize.