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absurd. This word for ridiculous, foolish, or irrational comes to us from the world of music, as the original meaning of its Latin ancestor, absurdus, was “out of tune or harmony.” The Ro- mans, however, used absurdus in the figurative sense long be- fore it passed into English. In recent times the term Theater of the Absurd has been used to describe the plays of contemporary dramatists that conceptualize the world as absurd, that is, irra- tional, meaningless, and indecipherable. |