Absurd
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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:
Entertainment
- Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s
- "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto
- "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses
- Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
- Absurd (film), 1981 Italian film
- Absurd or surreal humour
Philosophy
- Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense
- Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless
- Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction
- Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument