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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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But it wasn’t just the hyperrealism of the scene that made it so striking.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Art critics have come up with various terms for work like DeAndrea’s, including hyperrealism, although DeAndrea notably has said he doesn’t consider himself an artist.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2023

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

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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