absurd : Idioms & Phrases


the absurd

  • noun a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
    absurd.
    • The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
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theater of the absurd

  • noun plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless
    • Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd
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