surrealism
noun/səˈriːəlɪzəm/
/səˈriːəlɪzəm/
[uncountable]- 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 mindTopics Artc1Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French surréalisme (from sur- ‘above’ and realism).
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