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absurd, theater of the

Plays that stress the illogical or irrational aspects of experience, usually to show the pointlessness of modern life. Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, and Harold Pinter have written plays of this kind.

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Nearby words

abstrict, abstriction, abstruse, abstrusity, absurd, absurd, theater of the, absurdism, absurdist, absurdity, abt., abta
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