surreality

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Recent Examples of surreality The retro pop-culture references only add to the surreality, as does Hawley’s love of superimposing one image over another. Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surreality
Noun
  • The music video pairs tribal ritualism with coastal dreaminess, leading viewers through a cabin lit by candlelight and a beach after sunset.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • His introspective works would range from stories of ordinary life to more overt surrealism, their atmospheres tinged with dreaminess, eroticism and mysterious tensions.
    Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Although Harold is not literary fiction’s first obsessive ruminator, what makes Muscle Man feel so plugged into the moment is how common the predicament feels.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The arrow sequence, though, has a connection to video gaming, recognizably originating in a game called Helldivers 2, a science-fiction narrative similar to Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers that covers fascistic themes.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In rare cases, sleepers gain insight into the unreality of their dreams from within the dream itself.
    Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For Leader, this hammers home the unreality of a studio without an intense marketing machine around it.
    Ryan Gaur, IndieWire, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • These are not fantasies drummed up by the Left despite claims from Paxton and his most ardent supporters.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Cavill's film is a new version of the 1986 action-fantasy about an immortal Scottish swordsman's battle against another immortal warrior that starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Surreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surreality. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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