(obsolete) An absurdity. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
(philosophy) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrationaluniverse and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. [First attested in English in the early 20th century and first used in the mid-19th century in Danish by Kierkegaard.]