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Phantasmagorical vs Surreal - What's the difference?

phantasmagorical | surreal |

As adjectives the difference between phantasmagorical and surreal

is that phantasmagorical is while surreal is resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.

As a noun surreal is

(math) surreal number.

phantasmagorical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * 1886 , , Confessions and Criticisms , ch. 3 "Americanism in Fiction":
    • Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives."
  • * 1921 , , Crome Yellow , ch. 28:
    • "In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues."

    surreal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous

    • Related terms

    * real

    Derived terms

    * surrealism * surrealist * surreality * surreally * surreal number

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (math) surreal number
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