metarealist
metarealist noun: one who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.
Noun
metarealist (plural metarealists)
- One who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.
- Kafka, in my view, is a metarealist, for he takes ordinary events and turns them ever so slightly so that we are obliged to question what reality may be.2003, James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination
- An artist or a poet who follows metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
Adjective
metarealist (comparative more metarealist, superlative most metarealist)
- Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
- With its multiple levels, its elasticity, resilience, and expandability, its ability to extend out of itself and beyond itself, in its visible meta-physicality, space is the major player in metarealist art.2015, Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture
Forms of metarealist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | metarealists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more metarealist |
| superlative | most metarealist |
Origin of metarealist
From meta- + realist.
Words formed from metarealist
Questions about metarealist
- What does metarealist mean?
- Metarealist means one who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.
- What part of speech is metarealist?
- Metarealist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of metarealist?
- The plural of metarealist is metarealists.
Words near metarealist in the dictionary
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