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Ridiculism 

the art of being ridiculous
Did you hear that joke the bartender told? He must be into ridiculism.
Ridiculism by xxNicholexx October 18, 2007

Ridiculism

Ridiculism is the idea that some things become more ridiculous the deeper you understand them. It's an artistic movement and philosophical framework. The deeper the rabbit hole, the funnier the architecture.
The artist Pie creates works or ridiculism. She said that a ridiculist artwork does not exist in any single object, painting, poem, film, book, post, tweet or performance. It exists in the pattern formed between multiple works across time. A painter might draw a tree on a canvas. A photographer might take a picture of one. Someone creating works of ridiculism might wear a shirt made of lyocell - a fibre made from wood pulp - on Monday; sing a song about water and soil on Tuesday; draw a yellow sun on a wall on Wednesday; dance across a stage on Friday, waving their hands in the air while kicking pieces of paper across the floor; remind you on Saturday that the colour brown makes them think of Thursday; and dye their hair green on Sunday. Concept: tree. But the tree exists nowhere individually. It emerges through time and pattern recognition.

Ridiculesque 

Describes an individual, object or concept that is not overtly ridiculous, but perhaps bears many of the same qualities as one that is.
Person 1: This whole situation is ridiculous.
Person 2: Naw that's too extreme, bro. It's just ridiculesque.
Ridiculesque by Vannaroth. January 10, 2009

ridiculi 

The plural of ridiculous, meaning exceptionally ridiculous so much so that saying ridiculous is not enough to express the ridiculousness of the situation
If your mum came up to you and bitchslapped you to put you back in your place. That would be a suitable time to say; "That is absolutely ridiculi"
ridiculi by Paddy V August 13, 2006

ridiculum 

Man, you should have come to that party... we got into all kinds of ridiculum.
ridiculum by tookeet August 16, 2008

Ridiculosity to the Max 

an extreme level of ridiculousness, measured on a scale of 1-5. Hitting the highest point of ridiculosity.
It was Ridiculosity to the Max when Loo and Shu danced to Party Monster for the hundredth time
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funflation by Dfree523 November 17, 2023
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Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
swamp dog by Crystal Ambrose May 22, 2006
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