Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding that humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict with this universe.
- noun An act or instance of the ridiculous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable
Absurdity , something that isabsurd
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word absurdism.
Examples
-
New York Times calls him "... an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture."
-
A tale of wandering, bickering exorcists who cleanse the secrets lurking in people's closets, the movie combines an ambitious sense of playful fantastical absurdism with an underlying heartbeat of melancholic mourning.
-
It's romantic absurdism with fangs, and I suspect it's the sort of thing you either love or hate.
-
"Ataxia, the Wooden Continent" continues the absurdism, but does so with entries from an encyclopedia of a floating continent full of sentient wood.
-
Each abuse deftly combines esoteric absurdism and audacious vulgarity to provide an instantly quotable collection of derision.
-
They include Mr. Shakhnazarov's perestroika-era "Zero City" 1988, a surreal allegory laced with absurdism, which screened in a series on Russian fantastic cinema.
-
Karlovic's commentary ranges from self-deprecation to self-defense to heckling of other tennis Tweeters to absurdism.
-
The absurdism and surrealism extends also to one character with Asperger's syndrome, who is himself something of a metaphor for the Soviet system.
-
Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism.
intertribal: burn the streets, burn the cars, pa-pa-power, pa-pa-power
-
The distance – inflected with nostalgia and absurdism – is essential, because one of the things Stezaker is engaged in is a daring rescue of images from the memory dump of the recent past.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.