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Surreal vs Conceptual - What's the difference?

surreal | conceptual |

As adjectives the difference between surreal and conceptual

is that surreal is resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous while conceptual is of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination.

As a noun surreal

is surreal number.

surreal

English

Adjective

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

    * surrealism * surrealist * surreality * surreally * surreal number

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (math) surreal number
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    conceptual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination
  • We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
  • *
  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
  • Of, or relating to conceptualism
  • Derived terms

    * aconceptual * conceptually * conceptual model * conceptual art * conceptual graph * conceptual network * preconceptual

    Descendants

    * German: (l)