sur•re•al 1: Having an oddly dreamlike quality. 2: Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions. 3: Resembling a dream. 4: Used of fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams. 5: surréalisme : sur- , beyond (from Old French)

+ réalisme ,realism: beyond realism. 6: Relating to the 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

7: Stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc. 8: A style in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.