1) A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding
that humans exist in meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict
with the universe.
"True absurdism is not less but more real than reality." -John Simon
2) An act or instance of the ridculous.
"This strained conceit never quite locates scree equivalents for the stage absurdism."
-village voice