Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

Entertainment

Absurd (band) Absurd é uma bandaNational Socialist black metal band,conhecidos por matar um cara e usar sua lápide como capa de álbum, banda de cuzão filhos da putaTöten für Wotan'. In: ''Der Spiegel'', no. 38, 2000, 18 September 2000, p 134. and has ...

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

Risotto Risotto (, , from meaning "rice") is a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetables. Many types of risotto contain butter, onion, white wine, and Par ...

* "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses *

Theatre of the Absurd The Theatre of the Absurd (french: théâtre de l'absurde ) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s. It is also a term for the style ...

, 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 causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of sur ...

Absurdist fiction Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless act ...

Philosophy

Absurdity An absurdity is a state or condition of being extremely unreasonable, meaningless or unsound in reason so as to be irrational or not taken seriously. "Absurd" is an adjective used to describe an absurdity, e.g., "Tyler and the boys laughed at ...

, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense *

Absurdism Absurdism is the philosophical theory that existence in general is absurd. This implies that the world lacks meaning or a higher purpose and is not fully intelligible by reason. The term "absurd" also has a more specific sense in the context o ...

, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless * Absurd, a term used in

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premis ...

to describe a contradiction ** ''

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

'', a type of logical argument {{Disambiguation