▸noun[mass noun]a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.
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magic realist(also magical realist)noun
– ORIGIN 1930s (in reference to a style of painting that depicted fantastical images in a naturalistic manner): from magic + realism, translating Germanmagischer Realismus, used by the writer Franz Roh.
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