sur‧real‧is‧m /səˈrɪəlɪz
əm/
noun [uncountable][
Date: 1900-2000;
Language: French;
Origin: surréalisme, from sur- ( ⇒ surcharge) + réalisme 'realism']
a style of 20th-century art or literature in which the artist or writer connects unrelated images and objects in a strange way
—surrealist adjective:
a surrealist painting—surrealist noun [countable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲