See absurdisme on Wiktionary
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"human-sciences",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål terms with quotations",
"nb:Literature"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[it was] especially in the dramatic form that absurdism had established itself as a literary direction",
"ref": "1963, Morgenbladet:",
"text": "[det var] særlig i den dramatiske form absurdismen hadde etablert seg som litterær retning",
"translation": "[it was] especially in the dramatic form that absurdism had established itself as a literary direction",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Carroll's work [anticipates] both surrealism and absurdism",
"ref": "2014 February 24, Dagbladet, page 46:",
"text": "Carrolls verk [foregriper] både surrealismen og absurdismen",
"translation": "Carroll's work [anticipates] both surrealism and absurdism",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"absurdist fiction (direction in literature and drama which highlights the absurdity of life)"
],
"links": [
[
"literature",
"literature"
],
[
"absurdist",
"absurdist"
],
[
"fiction",
"fiction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literature) absurdist fiction (direction in literature and drama which highlights the absurdity of life)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"literature",
"media",
"publishing"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[Dylan confused] lifestyle journalists with puns, naivisms, absurdisms",
"ref": "1999, Håvard Rem, Bob Dylan, page 12:",
"text": "[Dylan forvirret] livsstils-journalister med ordspill, naivismer, absurdismer",
"translation": "[Dylan confused] lifestyle journalists with puns, naivisms, absurdisms",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"an absurdism or absurdity (that which is absurd; an absurd thought or action)"
],
"links": [
[
"absurdism",
"absurdism"
],
[
"absurdity",
"absurdity"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "absurditet"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/abˈsʉɖɪsmə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/abˈsʉʁdɪsmə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/apˈsʉɖɪsmə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/apˈsʉʁdɪsmə/"
},
{
"audio": "nb-absurdisme.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Nb-absurdisme.ogg/Nb-absurdisme.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Nb-absurdisme.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪsmə"
}
],
"word": "absurdisme"
}
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