metarealist

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English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ realist.

Noun

metarealist (plural metarealists)

  1. One who tends to interpret things in ways that go beyond conventional reality.
    • 2003, James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination:
      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.
  2. An artist or a poet who follows metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.

Adjective

metarealist (comparative more metarealist, superlative most metarealist)

  1. Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
    • 2015, Mikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture:
      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.