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ab•surd•ism
(ab sûr′diz əm, -zûr′-),USA pronunciation n.
- Literature, Philosophythe philosophical and literary doctrine that human beings live in essential isolation in a meaningless and irrational world.
- absurd + -ism 1945–50
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