absurdist 

Absurdist theater is a phrase coined by Martin Esslin, a theather critic who grouped together several playwrights who wrote in a similar fashion. Absurdist drama is a direct result of World War 2, and is about the way people felt after it. There are three types of Absurdism: Fatalism, Existentialism, and Hilarious. Fatalism is the type of theater Beckett wrote (Waiting for Godot, End Game), where man is trapped in life, even basic communication is cut off. Existentialism is that if there is no point, at least you can rationalize an existance, No Exit is an example of this. Hilarious is the type Ionesco wrote (The Lesson), based off the Neitzsche prinicpal that man invented laughter to keep sanity. The entire point of Absurdism is that there is no point to life on the surface, so there has to be some reason to live. It's an attempt to answer to the fundemental questions, why are we here? etc.

One might argue that Samuel Beckett, the author of Waiting fo Godot, is the best absurdist playwright, even though crictics hated it until a group of prison inmates did a production of it.

absurdist by josh howard December 14, 2008

absurdist 

An adjective describing a form of theatre that makes absolutely no sense what so ever. It involves plays with near impossible scenerios, characters and bizarre dialogue that is meant to make the audience ask, "What the hell?" Absurdist plays usually have anti-climactic endings and underlying, symbolic meanings that no one gets except the author.

"Waiting for Godo" is the most famous absurdist play ever.

absurdist by Ron_Thornbrash May 23, 2005

absurdism 

Life is meaningless. Have a cup of coffee.

Albert Camus, one of the pioneers of absurdism, once said, "Should I kill myself or, have a cup of coffee?"

absurdism by darthvishous November 13, 2017

Absurdistan 

Your current locale/country when something completely ridiculous happens.

Here in Asburdistan, the State-boys pull over those who "speed" while ignoring those who hog the passing-lane, exhibiting their longest fingers.

Absurdistan by Sean Brian Kirby June 4, 2003

absurdium 

A chemical element theorized to be produced by the human body in a certain percentage of the population. The element is suspected to have a clear irreversible degenerative effect on the intellect. It is also a suspected contributor to the 'Bozone Layer' effect (please see Bozone Layer and bozone)

This element is not listed in the Periodic Table. It is illusive and has not yet been synthesized in the lab, and scientists suspect that they will never be able to. Naturally, there will never be a cure that reverses absurdium's effects.

Your idea has the trademark of absurdium.

This is the most banal thing I've heard. You must be on absurdium or something.

Did someone accidentally add few absurdium drops to your kool-aid this morning?

Man, I can smell the absurdium in your breath. It should be illegal for you to think.

absurdium by Kurchatovium January 7, 2010

absurding 

unreasonable, illogical, silly, joking(absurd combined with kidding)

Person1: Youre going to summer school
Person2: Are you absurding me, no way!

absurding by LeCapitainSmith November 6, 2011

apsurdistan 

Apsurdistan is a name for a place or a country which is full of economic, political and social absurdities. For example Croatia which is full of abusrds.

Work inspection has come to a pharmacy and has found that workers work less than 40 hours per week as stated in work contract. The owner is OK with this. It pays full salaries which are far more than the average. Employees are happy. But not the work inspection which issues a penalty for this. Croatia is an apsurdistan.

apsurdistan by Abusrdistan September 21, 2013