surreality

sur·re·al (s

-r

adj.

1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: "Even with most facilities shut down ... a few mavericks managed to slip into the park to sample the almost surreal emptiness before the shutdown ended." (Peter H. King).

2. Having an oddly dreamlike quality.

[Back-formation from surrealism.]

sur·real·ly adv.

surreal [səˈrɪəl]

adj

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) suggestive of surrealism; dreamlike

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the. the atmosphere or qualities evoked by surrealism

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Adj.	1.	surreal - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"
	2.	surreal - resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" dreamlike unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"

Translations

surreal [səˈrɪəl] ADJ → surreal, surrealista

surreal [səˈriːəl] adj → surréel(le)

surreal

adj → unwirklich

surreal [səˈrɪəl] adj (unreal) → surreale; (strange) → bizzarro/a

Mentioned in	?		References in periodicals archive	?		Dictionary browser	?		Full browser	?
border dreamlike dreamscape genre Kafkaesque magic realism Magritte off-the-wall phantasmagoric phantasmagorical Pythonesque surrealistic unreal	To add a final note of surreality, the bike was a BMX. Jockeys let their hair down at the Lambourn Jesters; THE DIKLER The ... by The Racing Post (London, England) We're definitely out of traditional panto territory when this bird's around, played by a cast member in bowler hat, suit and huge conical beak, bringing a sense of creepy surreality akin to something from Magritte (points for most pompous analogy to ever make it into a panto review - and this is the first of the season). Wicked tale full of Bling and mischief; 08 Culture Diary THEATRE The ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While I'll admit my own little dog has been fighting a series of infections and spent a lot of time at the vet, this private drama has little to do with the painting's emotional power: You'd have to be lobotomized not to feel something here--despite a palette of only a half dozen or so colors and forms as spare, assured, and graphic as a safety diagram, in an arrangement odd enough to approach the surreality of the daily. John Wesley: Daniel Weinberg by Hainley, Bruce / Artforum International	surplus surplus income surplus property surplus value surplusage surprint surprisal surprise surprise attack surprise dosage attack Surprise party surprised surprisedly Surprisement Surpriser surprising surprisingly surprisingness Surquedous Surquedry surra surreal surrealism surrealist surrealistic surreality Surrebound Surrebut Surrebuter surrebuttal surrebutter Surrein Surrejoin surrejoinder surrender surrender value Surrenderee Surrenderer Surrenderor Surrendry Surreption surreptitious surreptitiously Surrey surrogacy surrogate surrogate mother Surrogateship Surrogation surround surround sound	Surratt, Mary Eugenia SURRC surreal Surreal Humor Amateur Group Surreal humour surrealism surrealism Surrealism (art) Surrealism (art) Surrealism in the arts Surrealism in the arts surrealist surrealist Surrealist Art Surrealist Art Surrealist London Action Group Surrealist poet Surrealist poet Surrealist poetry Surrealist poetry Surrealist techniques Surrealist techniques Surrealist verse Surrealist verse surrealistic surrealistic surrealistically surrealistically Surrealists Surrealists surreality surreally Surreals Surrebound Surrebut Surrebut Surrebutal Surrebutal Surrebuter surrebuttal surrebuttal surrebuttals surrebuttals surrebutter surrebutter surrebutters surrebutters Surrein Surrejoin Surrejoin surrejoinder surrejoinder surrejoinders surrejoinders Surrend Surrend Surrend Surrend surrender surrender surrender

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Dictionary browser

Full browser

border
dreamlike
dreamscape
genre
Kafkaesque
magic realism
Magritte
off-the-wall
phantasmagoric
phantasmagorical
Pythonesque
surrealistic
unreal

To add a final note of surreality, the bike was a BMX.

Jockeys let their hair down at the Lambourn Jesters; THE DIKLER The ... by The Racing Post (London, England)

We're definitely out of traditional panto territory when this bird's around, played by a cast member in bowler hat, suit and huge conical beak, bringing a sense of creepy surreality akin to something from Magritte (points for most pompous analogy to ever make it into a panto review - and this is the first of the season).

Wicked tale full of Bling and mischief; 08 Culture Diary THEATRE The ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While I'll admit my own little dog has been fighting a series of infections and spent a lot of time at the vet, this private drama has little to do with the painting's emotional power: You'd have to be lobotomized not to feel something here--despite a palette of only a half dozen or so colors and forms as spare, assured, and graphic as a safety diagram, in an arrangement odd enough to approach the surreality of the daily.

John Wesley: Daniel Weinberg by Hainley, Bruce / Artforum International

surreal (redirected from surreality)

surreal
(redirected from surreality)