Usually means: Playwrighting emphasizing absurdity, illogicality, futility.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. theater of the absurd: Merriam-Webster
  2. Theater of the Absurd: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. theater of the absurd: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. theater of the absurd: Vocabulary.com
  5. theater of the absurd: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. theater of the absurd: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. theater of the absurd, absurd, theater of the: Dictionary.com
  8. Theater of the Absurd, Theater of the absurd: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. theater of the absurd: Rhymezone
  10. theater of the absurd: FreeDictionary.org
  11. theater of the absurd: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. theater of the absurd: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater of the absurd: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theater of the absurd: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from WordNet (theater of the absurd)

noun:  plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless ("Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd")


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