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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NAmE//səˈriəlɪst//
adjective [usually before noun] a surrealist painter/painting noun the surrealist Salvador DaliSee surrealism in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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