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nonabsurd en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + absurd.

Meanings

1. Not absurd;
   • However, the intuition of the example only shows that between an absurd and a nonabsurd interpretation, the latter is to be chosen, other (global) things equal. 2013, Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig, A Companion to Donald Davidson:
   • Thus a sociology of the absurd takes as its subject matter every person's quest for the nonabsurd. While trying to understand how modern man or woman achieves the nonabsurd, we happened to run across the writings of the Marquis de Sade. 1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd, page 192:
   • These examples of unfunny and nonabsurd incongruities also have other attention-directing characteristics that may interfere with the isolating of their component incongruities, and prevent their comic character from being properly noticed and naturally appreciated. 2020, Joel Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfillment: Philosophical Essays, page 335:

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