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hyperrealism

British  
/ ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəlɪzəm /

noun

  1. another word for photorealism

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One could argue that this hyperrealism is paramount for a third-person action game that presents a pictorial realm of visions and wonders, of fire-breathing humans and slithering giants.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

For decades, Kim Tschang-Yeul painted water drops that sit somewhere between abstraction and hyperrealism.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Writer Clarisse Loughrey gave it four stars, praising the movie as a "technological marvel of unprecedented hyperrealism".

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2019

And at times in “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Lee’s pursuit of an intense, uncompromising hyperrealism winds up merely underscoring its own digital artifice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016

It’s drawn in the cartoons’ appealing neo-Deco style instead of the stiff hyperrealism of most contemporary superheroics.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2015

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