Noun: absurdisme
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | absurdisme |
| Pl. | absurdismer |
Definite
| Sg. | absurdismen |
| Pl. | absurdismene |
Sample Sentences
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harselas over absurdismen som fenomen (laugh at the absurdism as a phenomenon) [1964, VG, page 35:]
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filmen ville tjent på flere … øyeblikk og momenter av friksjon og kynisk absurdisme (the film would benefit from more… moments and moments of friction and cynical absurdism) [2011 August 18, Bergens Tidende^([bt.no]):]
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Beckett, Ionesco og Pinter er representanter for absurdismen
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Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter are representatives of absurdism
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[det var] særlig i den dramatiske form absurdismen hadde etablert seg som litterær retning ([it was] especially in the dramatic form that absurdism had established itself as a literary direction) [1963, Morgenbladet:]
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Carrolls verk [foregriper] både surrealismen og absurdismen (Carroll's work [anticipates] both surrealism and absurdism) [2014 February 24, Dagbladet, page 46:]
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[Dylan forvirret] livsstils-journalister med ordspill, naivismer, absurdismer ([Dylan confused] lifestyle journalists with puns, naivisms, absurdisms) [1999, Håvard Rem, Bob Dylan, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like absurdisme
overtakelse,
modelljernbane,
seanse,
overtagelse,
snegle,
satire,
sminkebørste,
salvie,
sjanse,
smerte,
slange,
sonate,
single,
skygge,
skotte,
skjede,
skalle,
bekreftelse,
fenaknoke,
sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
absurd + -isme, first part from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Last part from French -isme (“-ism”), from Latin -isma, -ismus (“-ism”), from Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós, forms abstract nouns), from -μός (-mós, forms abstract nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *-mos or *-mós (creates nouns). See: Latin Nouns '
absurdus', French Nouns '
-isme', Latin Nouns '
-isma'.
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