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absurdism
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ab·surd·ism       [ab-sur-diz-uhm, -zur-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the philosophical and literary doctrine that human beings live in essential isolation in a meaningless and irrational world.
[Origin: 1945–50; absurd + -ism]
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ab·surd·ism       (əb-sûr'dĭz-əm, -zûr'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. 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: "True absurdism is not less but more real than reality" (John Simon).
  2. An act or instance of the ridiculous: "This strained conceit never quite locates screen equivalents for the stage absurdisms" (Village Voice).

ab·surd'ist adj. & n.
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