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noun

absurd

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a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless

In a sentence

Six example sentences with absurd, each labelled with its topic.

  • Camus begins with the absurd, the collision between our demand for reasons and a universe that offers none.

    Philosophy

  • Beckett staged the absurd directly, leaving two men on an empty road waiting for someone who never comes.

    Literature

  • The director films office routine as the absurd, endless forms stamped by workers who cannot say what any of it accomplishes.

    Movies

  • Existential therapists help clients face the absurd, the sense that life comes with no given meaning, without sliding into despair.

    Psychology

  • Dada artists made the absurd their subject after the war, hanging nonsense poems and found objects where portraits used to go.

    Art

  • The indie game dwells in the absurd, sending its hero to file paperwork that nobody will ever read in an empty office.

    Gaming

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