/ səˈriːəlɪzəm; NAmE / noun
[ U ] a 20th century style and movement in art and literature in which images and events that are not connected are put together in a strange or impossible way, like a dream, to try to express what is happening deep in the mind
► sur·real·ist adjective [ usually before noun ]:
a surrealist painter / painting
► sur·real·ist noun :
the surrealist Salvador Dali
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WORD ORIGIN
early 20th cent.: from French surréalisme (from sur- above and realism ).