surrealness
Feeling of unreality
Surrealness is the quality of being surreal—dreamlike, bizarre, or defying ordinary logic.
The word describes experiences that feel unreal or disorienting: The surrealness of the empty city streets unsettled her.
It overlaps with surreality, though surrealness emphasizes the immediate felt quality of strangeness rather than a general condition.
Surrealist painter's surname
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
collage · montage · symbolism · expressionism · abstract · modernism · installation · cubism
Relating to dreams
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
ethereal · somnambulism · delirium · daydream · trance · fever-dream · disembodied · twilight
Distorted, bizarre figure
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
- freakishStrangely abnormal, disturbing
- aberrantDeparting from what's typical
- anomalousDeviating from expected norms
preposterous · inexplicable · baffling · uncanny · disorienting · jarring · unsettling · disconcerting
Wildly illogical quality
- incongruityLack of harmony
- strangenessQuality of being peculiar
- weirdnessQuality of being strange
- peculiarityUnusual distinguishing characteristic
otherworldliness · unreality · eeriness · disorientation · illogic · impossibility · distortion · displacement
Dali
Surrealist painter's surname
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
juxtaposition · collage · montage · symbolism · expressionism · abstract · modernism · installation · cubism · dreamscape
oneiric
Relating to dreams
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
hallucination · ethereal · somnambulism · delirium · daydream · trance · fever-dream · disembodied · twilight · liminal
grotesque
Distorted, bizarre figure
- outlandishStrikingly weird or foreign-seeming
- freakishStrangely abnormal, disturbing
- aberrantDeparting from what's typical
anomalous · preposterous · inexplicable · baffling · uncanny · disorienting · jarring · unsettling · disconcerting · eerie
absurdity
Wildly illogical quality
- incongruityLack of harmony
- strangenessQuality of being peculiar
- weirdnessQuality of being strange
peculiarity · otherworldliness · unreality · eeriness · disorientation · illogic · impossibility · distortion · displacement · disjunction
surrealnessnormalcy
State of being typical
normality · realness · ordinariness · mundaneness · reality
surrealnessrationality
Sound judgment quality
logicalness · coherence · sensibleness · lucidity · realism
unreal, surreal, surrealism, realness, surrealist, surreally, surrealists, surreality