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What does absurdism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
  2. (countable) Absurdity, something that is absurd
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Under the influence of European absurdism, the climate of contemporary American theater has shifted.
Some people just don't get this film and believe that the Coens are trotting out weak absurdism to disguise and buttress a genre storyline.
Adams' innovation was to adapt the absurdism of Monty Python to the venue that best suited it.
There is an inherent pitfall in such movements as surrealism, Dadaism, and absurdism.
The detective story is superficially part of the hard-boiled tradition, but a vein of absurdism, a hint of Kafka, distorts the naturalism.
Mud, River, Stone makes light of reality without transporting us to realms of poetry, philosophy, or absurdism where this would no longer matter.

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