The linguist explained that the verb in the sentence is irrealis, indicating that the action did not actually take place.

Linguists often analyze the irrealis mood to understand how languages express hypothetical or nonfactual situations.

Linguists debated whether certain languages mark irrealis moods with a special particle.

In his lecture, he defended irrealism as a pragmatic stance that treats phenomenalism and physicalism as equally valid world-versions depending on context.

In contemporary surrealist literature, irrealisms often blur the line between memory and imagination.

The painter's latest series is intentionally irrealistic, evoking strange memories and impossible landscapes.

Their plan to terraform the distant moon was, given current technology, irrealisable.