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surrealness

surrealness noun: the quality of being surreal.

Noun

surrealness (uncountable)

  1. 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...2008 April 6, Deirdre Mcnamer, “How Big Sky Went Dark”, in New York Times

Origin of surrealness

From surreal + -ness.

Questions about surrealness

What does surrealness mean?
Surrealness means the quality of being surreal.
What part of speech is surrealness?
Surrealness is a noun.

Words near surrealness in the dictionary

  1. surrealize
  2. surrealized
  3. surrealizes
  4. surrealizing
  5. surreally
  6. surrealness
  7. surreals
  8. surrealscape
  9. surrealscapes
  10. surrealty
  11. surrebound

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