/səˈriːəlɪzəm/

sur·real·ism

BrE /səˈriːəlɪzəm/

NAmE /səˈriːəlɪzəm/

[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

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sur·real·ist

BrE /səˈriːəlɪst/

NAmE /səˈriːəlɪst/

[usually before noun]

a surrealist painter/painting

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sur·real·ist

BrE /səˈriːəlɪst/

NAmE /səˈriːəlɪst/

the surrealist Salvador Dali