单词 | surreal |
释义 | surrealadj. Having the qualities of surrealist art; bizarre, dreamlike. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [adjective] > of the nature of daydreams castle-built1841 super-real1841 super-real1859 pipe-dreamy1899 superrealistic1925 surreal1937 1937 Burlington Mag. Jan. p. xiv/1 Some ‘surreal’ influence haunts the regions of the Black Forest. 1952 N.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. 1956 Time 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. 1968 New Yorker 25 May 87/1 A surreally funny hour of film..which is goonish, rude, and altogether relieving. 1968 P. 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. 1976 S. 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. Derivatives surreˈality n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally decoruma1568 humoura1568 variety1597 strength1608 uniformity1625 barbarity1644 freedom1645 boldness1677 correctness1684 clinquant1711 unity1712 contrast1713 meretriciousness1727 airiness1734 pathos1739 chastity1760 vigour1774 prettyism1789 mannerism1803 serio-comic1805 actuality1812 largeness1824 local colour1829 subjectivitya1834 idealism1841 pastoralism1842 inartisticalitya1849 academicism1852 realism1856 colour contrast1858 crampedness1858 niggling1858 audacity1859 superreality1859 literalism1860 pseudo-classicism1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 chocolate box1865 pseudo-classicality1867 academism1871 actualism1872 academicalism1874 ethos1875 terribilità1877 local colouring1881 neoclassicism1893 mass effect1902 attack1905 verismo1908 kitsch1921 abstraction1923 self-consciousness1932 surreality1936 tension1941 build-up1942 sprezzatura1957 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > dreamlike quality surreality1936 1936 D. Gascoyne tr. Breton 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.’ 1974 Encycl. 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’. 1980 J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men xv. 319 Scale impresses him. He calls it ‘art’. ‘Surreality’, if you please. suˈrreally adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [adverb] > in dreamlike manner with one's head in the air1890 surreally1982 1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 549/1 Surreally hard-edged, the world Child's Play projects is one where details have a hallucinatory vividness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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