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surreal, a.|səˈriːəl|
[Back-formation from surrealism, surrealist a. and n. Poss. coined (as surréel) in Fr. Cf. super-real adj. s.v. super- 4 a (a).]
Having the qualities of surrealist art; bizarre, dreamlike. So surreˈality, suˈrreally adv.
1936D. Gascoyne tr. Breton's What is Surrealism? vi. 66 As I said in the Manifesto: ‘I believe in the future transmutation of those two seemingly contradictory states, dream and reality, into a sort of absolute reality, of surreality, so to speak.’ 1937Burlington Mag. Jan. p. xiv/1 Some ‘surreal’ influence haunts the regions of the Black Forest. 1952N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 4 May 26/5 I'll agree with that; however I didn't select the surrealism, the distortion, the intensity, as an experimental technique but because reality is surreal. 1956Time 18 June 109/1 Author Gascar's power to evoke disgust, which he does by combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, until they become surreal and emetic. 1968New Yorker 25 May 87/1 A surreally funny hour of film..which is goonish, rude, and altogether relieving. 1968P. Oliver Screening Blues vi. 199 A startling flight of sexual fantasy, it [sc. ‘Coffee Blues’]..extends to surreal associations which imply the sexual virtuosity of the singer. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 693/2 The world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in ‘an absolute reality, a surreality’. 1976S. Hynes Auden Generation vii. 227 As the 'thirties moved on toward the end, there was only the surreal... Even the agents of order were surreal and terrifying. 1980J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men xv. 319 Scale impresses him. He calls it ‘art’. ‘Surreality’, if you please. 1982Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 549/1 Surreally hard-edged, the world Child's Play projects is one where details have a hallucinatory vividness. |