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English word
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun has 1 sense
- surrealism(n = noun.group) - a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams;
Derived form noun surrealist1, adjective surrealistic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
, n. a 20th-c. movement in art and literature aiming at expressing the subconscious mind, e.g. by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Derivative
surrealist n. & adj. surrealistic adj. surrealistically adv.
Etymology
F surr{eacute}alisme (as SUR-(1), REALISM)