absurdist

absurdist
absurdist [ab sʉr′dist, abzʉr′dist; əb sʉr′dist, əbzʉr′dist]
adj.
1. designating or holding the belief that human existence is absurd, irrational, meaningless, etc.
2. of, relating to, or associated with the theater of the absurd
n.
an absurdist thinker, writer, etc.
absurdism
n.

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