Absurd comes from the Latin word absurdus, meaning muffled or out of tune.
Today, it is most often used to describe something ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable.
However, my favorite definition of absurd is "the condition or state in which humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe wherein people's lives have no purpose or meaning".
Not to say that I am a nihilist, but I do enjoy absurdism over all other forms of comedy, such as Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Existentialist philosophers also like the word "absurd." To them, it suggests the ungraspable situation we find ourselves in: self-aware, yet mortal; craving meaning and freedom at the same time.
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