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surrealness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Old French sur- French sur- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reel Middle French real French réel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French réalisme French surréalismebor. English surrealismbf. English surreal Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English surrealness From surreal + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being surreal.
    • The candidates were undoubtedly prepped about Butte’s economic history (raucous copper-mining town in its heyday, union town, company town, Democratic stronghold), its demographics (white, blue-collar, Catholic, lots of Irish), its decline (drastic population loss, abandoned mines, Superfund site, the Power debacle), the faint sparks of economic hope (a windmill turbine plant, an influx of artists and environmental cleanup folks), its surrealness (that 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary, looking down from a mountaintop at a denuded landscape dotted with mine mainframes and an abandoned open-pit mine the size of a small county!) 2008 April 6, Deirdre Mcnamer, “How Big Sky Went Dark”, in New York Times: