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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French surréalisme, from sur- + réalisme realism Date: 1925 the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations • surrealist noun or adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a 20th-c. movement in art and literature aiming at expressing the subconscious mind, e.g. by the irrational juxtaposition of images. Derivatives: surrealist n. & adj. surrealistic adj. surrealistically adv. Etymology: F surréalisme (as SUR-(1), REALISM)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Surrealism is a style in art and literature in which ideas, images, and objects are combined in a strange way, like in a dream.