SURREALISM
Dictionary entry overview: What does surrealism mean? • SURREALISM (noun)
The noun SURREALISM has 1 sense:
1. a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
Familiarity information: SURREALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SURREALISM (noun)
Meaning:
A 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("surrealism" is a kind of...):
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
Meronyms (members of "surrealism"):
surrealist (an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism)
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