absurdistn.adj.

Brit.

/əbˈsəːdɪst/,

/əbˈzəːdɪst/, U.S.

/əbˈsərdəst/,

/æbˈsərdəst/,

/əbˈzərdəst/,

/æbˈzərdəst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: absurd adj., -ist suffix.

Etymology: < absurd adj. + -ist suffix. With later use compare French absurdiste , adjective (1945 designating the philosophy of Albert Camus, or earlier) and noun (1947 or earlier). Compare earlier absurdism n.

A. n.

1. A person who behaves in an illogical or absurd manner. rare.

ΚΠ

1894 Boston Daily Globe 14 Apr. 4/7 He had never denied himself the pleasures of life, had not been an anchorite or professional purist or absurdist on temperance.

1906 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 15 Feb. 1/6 I am not posing here as a rigid economist, yet I do not wish to be put in the position of being an ‘absurdist’, if I can coin that word.

2. A writer, performer, etc., whose work presents an audience or readership with absurdities, typically in portraying the futility of human struggle in a senseless and inexplicable world; esp. a writer or proponent of absurdist drama (see sense B.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material

metaphrast1610

lasher1611

pastoralist1619

amorist1642

travel writer1711

party writer1715

Poor Richard1757

murdermonger1785

manners-painter1807

institutionalist1817

paroemiographer1823

nautical1831

nonsense-writera1835

recaster1841

serialist1845

snobographer1848

librettist1862

palindromist1872

fragmentist1874

text-man1900

scriptwriter1911

paradoxographer1917

absurdist1929

blogger1999

weblogger1999

1929 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 13 Aug. 4/5 A master of giddy idiocy is a comparative newcomer, Frank Sullivan. He has been dubbed ‘the king of absurdists’.

1965 Listener 13 May 705/1 The American absurdist..resorts to strategies of overstatement, rather than a single suggestive scene.

1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy iii. 40 Beckett led the field, backed by Ionesco, Adamov, and other absurdists.

1983 Notes & Queries Dec. 573/1 The absurdists sneered at the didacticism of the Brechtians.

2006 E. Marks in L. D. Kritzman Columbia Hist. Twentieth-cent. French Thought ii. 133/1 Celine and Beckett are absurdists in the sense that the absurd is the basis of the fictional worlds their characters inhabit.

B. adj.

Relating to the perceived futility and senselessness of human life; (also) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Theatre of the Absurd (Theatre of the Absurd n. at theatre n. 3f(c)).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [adjective] > of or relating to other doctrines and their adherents

protentional1931

Kierkegaardian1943

absurd1946

Sartrean1948

absurdist1951

pataphysical1961

1951 Compar. Lit. 3 167 Caligula, committed to the inexorable logic of his absurdist dialectic,..is doomed to misery and eventual destruction.

1959 Notes & Queries 204 380/1 The absurdist dilemma.

1960 20th Cent. Apr. 321 The absurdist ethic does not recommend either..virtue or..crime.

1984 Rev. Eng. Stud. Feb. 83 He rejects both the moral-thematic and the absurdist readings of King Lear as simplifications.

2006 New Yorker 27 Nov. 158/3 Perhaps his greatest legacy is as pioneer of a proudly absurdist strain of the single-panel cartoon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	absurdist
释义	absurdistn.adj. Brit. /əbˈsəːdɪst/, /əbˈzəːdɪst/, U.S. /əbˈsərdəst/, /æbˈsərdəst/, /əbˈzərdəst/, /æbˈzərdəst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: absurd adj., -ist suffix. Etymology: < absurd adj. + -ist suffix. With later use compare French absurdiste , adjective (1945 designating the philosophy of Albert Camus, or earlier) and noun (1947 or earlier). Compare earlier absurdism n. A. n. 1. A person who behaves in an illogical or absurd manner. rare. ΚΠ 1894 Boston Daily Globe 14 Apr. 4/7 He had never denied himself the pleasures of life, had not been an anchorite or professional purist or absurdist on temperance. 1906 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 15 Feb. 1/6 I am not posing here as a rigid economist, yet I do not wish to be put in the position of being an ‘absurdist’, if I can coin that word. 2. A writer, performer, etc., whose work presents an audience or readership with absurdities, typically in portraying the futility of human struggle in a senseless and inexplicable world; esp. a writer or proponent of absurdist drama (see sense B.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 1929 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 13 Aug. 4/5 A master of giddy idiocy is a comparative newcomer, Frank Sullivan. He has been dubbed ‘the king of absurdists’. 1965 Listener 13 May 705/1 The American absurdist..resorts to strategies of overstatement, rather than a single suggestive scene. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy iii. 40 Beckett led the field, backed by Ionesco, Adamov, and other absurdists. 1983 Notes & Queries Dec. 573/1 The absurdists sneered at the didacticism of the Brechtians. 2006 E. Marks in L. D. Kritzman Columbia Hist. Twentieth-cent. French Thought ii. 133/1 Celine and Beckett are absurdists in the sense that the absurd is the basis of the fictional worlds their characters inhabit. B. adj. Relating to the perceived futility and senselessness of human life; (also) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Theatre of the Absurd (Theatre of the Absurd n. at theatre n. 3f(c)). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [adjective] > of or relating to other doctrines and their adherents protentional1931 Kierkegaardian1943 absurd1946 Sartrean1948 absurdist1951 pataphysical1961 1951 Compar. Lit. 3 167 Caligula, committed to the inexorable logic of his absurdist dialectic,..is doomed to misery and eventual destruction. 1959 Notes & Queries 204 380/1 The absurdist dilemma. 1960 20th Cent. Apr. 321 The absurdist ethic does not recommend either..virtue or..crime. 1984 Rev. Eng. Stud. Feb. 83 He rejects both the moral-thematic and the absurdist readings of King Lear as simplifications. 2006 New Yorker 27 Nov. 158/3 Perhaps his greatest legacy is as pioneer of a proudly absurdist strain of the single-panel cartoon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1894
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