A term first used in the 1960s, for a strand of theatre and literature, which emphasised the nonsensical, illogical or irrational. It is sometimes associated with dark humour or satire. Absurdist ideas were a recurring feature of radical culture of the twentieth century but the term is particularly associated with post-war theatre and with the play [..]

(uncountable,philosophy) A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail. First attested in the mid 20^th cen [..]