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What does absurdism mean?

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Noun
  1. (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 20th century.]
  2. (countable) Absurdity, something that is absurd
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The satire seems a bit vanilla but it's a family film so I'm not expecting total absurdism.
Mud, River, Stone makes light of reality without transporting us to realms of poetry, philosophy, or absurdism where this would no longer matter.
The Imponderables' humour is based around familiar, Pythonesque themes of deadpan absurdism.
Dada is as extinct as the dodo, and absurdism gave Surrealism a different spin.
Adams' innovation was to adapt the absurdism of Monty Python to the venue that best suited it.
There is an inherent pitfall in such movements as surrealism, Dadaism, and absurdism.

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