Absurd
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Related: Existentialism - meaning - nonsense - nihilism - Surrealism People associated with absurdism: Kierkegaard - Alfred Jarry - Fernando Arrabal - Alejandro Jodorowsky - Luis Buñuel - Samuel Beckett - Luigi Pirandello - Marx Brothers - Panic Movement |
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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:
- Absurdity, general and technical usage - associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense.
- Absurdism, a philosophy born of existentialism, regarding the philosophical concept of "the Absurd," the clash between the human tendency to seek some inherent meaning in the universe and the human impossibility of finding meaning
- Absurd or surreal humour
- Theatre of the Absurd, an art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
- Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction
- Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument
Etymology
First attested in 1557.
From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”).
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