hyperrealism
noun
hyperrealism is a noun meaning “A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-R-E-A-L-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperrealism is hyperrealisms.
What does hyperrealism mean?
noun
- 1
A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
- 2
A compositional style defined by Noah Creshevsky as "an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment (realism), handled in ways that are somehow exaggerated or excessive (hyper)."
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperrealism
- hyperrealisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperrealism?
Hyperrealism appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hyperrealism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hiperrealismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.