a 20th century style and movement in art and literature in which images and events that are not connected are put together in a strange or impossible way, like a dream, to try to express what is happening deep in the mind Topics Artc1超现实主义,超现实主义派(20 世纪文艺流派,以离奇怪诞的方式把无关联的形象和事情串连在一起) Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French surréalisme (from sur- ‘above’ and realism).