absurdisme

From English absurdism.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ab‧sur‧dis‧me
• Rhymes: -mə

absurdisme (Jawi spelling ابسورديسمى, plural absurdisme-absurdisme, informal 1st possessive absurdismeku, 2nd possessive absurdismemu, 3rd possessive absurdismenya)

1. (literature) absurdism

• “absurdisme” in Kamus Dewan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2021, →ISBN, page 5.

• “absurdisme” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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absurd +‎ -isme, first part from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Last part from French -isme (“-ism”), from Latin -isma, -ismus (“-ism”), from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós, forms abstract nouns), from -μός (-mós, forms abstract nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *-mos or *-mós (creates nouns).

• IPA^(key): /abˈsʉɖɪsmə/, /abˈsʉʁdɪsmə/, /apˈsʉɖɪsmə/, /apˈsʉʁdɪsmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsmə
• Hyphenation: ab‧surd‧is‧me

absurdisme m (definite singular absurdismen, indefinite plural absurdismer, definite plural absurdismene)

1. (philosophy) absurdism (the philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail)
   • 1964, VG, page 35:

     harselas over absurdismen som fenomen

     laugh at the absurdism as a phenomenon

   • 2011 August 18, Bergens Tidende‎:

     filmen ville tjent på flere … øyeblikk og momenter av friksjon og kynisk absurdisme

     the film would benefit from more… moments and moments of friction and cynical absurdism

   Beckett, Ionesco og Pinter er representanter for absurdismen

   Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter are representatives of absurdism

2. (literature) absurdist fiction (direction in literature and drama which highlights the absurdity of life)
   • 1963, Morgenbladet:

     [det var] særlig i den dramatiske form absurdismen hadde etablert seg som litterær retning

     especially in the dramatic form that absurdism had established itself as a literary direction

   • 2014 February 24, Dagbladet, page 46:

     Carrolls verk [foregriper] både surrealismen og absurdismen

     Carroll's work both surrealism and absurdism

3. an absurdism or absurdity (that which is absurd; an absurd thought or action)
   • 1999, Håvard Rem, Bob Dylan, page 12:

     [Dylan forvirret] livsstils-journalister med ordspill, naivismer, absurdismer

     lifestyle journalists with puns, naivisms, absurdisms

   Synonym: absurditet

• “absurdisme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “absurdisme” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “absurdisme” in Store norske leksikon