ABSURD

I. adjective Etymology: Middle French ~e, from Latin ~us, from ab- + surdus deaf, stupid Date: 1557 ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous , having no rational or orderly relationship to human life ; meaningless , dealing with the ~ or with ~ism , ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1946 the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning