Albert Camus's philosophical concept denoting the confrontation between human beings' drive to find clear meaning and the world's unreasonable silence in response to that demand.
The absurd is not a property of the world or the human being alone but the relationship between them — it requires both. The proper response is neither suicide (accepting absurdity) nor the leap of faith (denying it) but revolt: living fully and defiantly in awareness of the absurd.
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