surrealism has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) 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
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[ noun ] (fine art) genre of art and literature attempting to express the working of the subconscious and characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions

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