Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

Entertainment

  • Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s
  • "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto
  • "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses
  • Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
  • Absurd (film), 1981 Italian film
  • Absurd or surreal humour
  • Absurdist fiction

Philosophy and logic

  • Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense
  • The Absurd, the conflict between the human tendency to seek a certain meaning of life and the failure to find any
  • Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless
  • Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument