So, what is this Absurdist?

Not, who is this Absurdist?

When I was trying to think of a handle to use for this blog, "The Absurdist" crossed my mind because it reflects my sense of humor: I find humor in the absurdities of life. I thought before I committed myself to the name I should check to see if it is a legitimate word. Searching on"absurdist" at dictionary.com produced the following entry:

ab·surd·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (b-sûrdz-m, -zûr-)n.

1. A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding that humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict with this universe: “True absurdism is not less but more real than reality” (John Simon).
2. An act or instance of the ridiculous: “This strained conceit never quite locates screen equivalents for the stage absurdisms” (Village Voice).

ab·surdist adj. & n.

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At the end of this entry you'll see that the variation "absurdist" is both an adjective and a noun, from which I infer that an absurdist is an adherent of the philosophy of absurdism.

Now, I was a philosophy major in college, and I had never come across absurdism before. I even looked-it-up in my handy desk reference, "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy." It isn't listed, but this view of the universe as inherently absurd appeals to me. I have for several years thought of myself as a pragmatist in the tradition of William James, John Dewey, and Sidney Hook.

I'm reevaluating.