Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

Entertainment

* Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s * "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album

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* "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses * Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism * ''Absurd'' (film), 1981 Italian film * Absurd or

surreal humour Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causality, causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical. Portra ...

Absurdist fiction Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, Play (theatre), plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent Meaning of life, purpose in life, most often represented b ...

Philosophy and logic

Absurdity Absurdity is the state or condition of being unreasonable, meaningless, or so unsound as to be irrational. "Absurd" is the adjective used to describe absurdity, e.g., "Tyler and the boys laughed at the absurd situation." It derives from the Lat ...

, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense ** The Absurd, the conflict between the human tendency to seek a certain

meaning of life The meaning of life is the concept of an individual's life, or existence in general, having an intrinsic value (ethics), inherent significance or a Meaning (philosophy), philosophical point. There is no consensus on the specifics of such a conce ...

and the failure to find any ***

Absurdism Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrationality, irrational and meaningless. It states that trying to find meaning leads people into conflict with a seemingly meaningless world. This conflict can be between Rationality ...

, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless ** ''

Reductio ad absurdum In logic, (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or ''apagogical argument'', is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absur ...

'', a type of logical argument {{Disambiguation