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The absurd, as a sensation of the absence of meaning, is also something experienced ( see [[termos:e:erleben:start|Erleben]] ). Defined by Albert [[termos:c:camus:start|Camus]] as the “mystery and strangeness of the world,” it belongs to the French vocabulary of existentialism, which we have explored in its German source ( see [[termos:d:dasein-hlex:start|Dasein]] ). It is an ontological affect broadly described in the works of Schelling, Kierkegaard, Freud, and Heidegger ( see ANXIETY and, more generally, MALAISE ) in connection with “facticity” ( see [[termos:t:tatsache:start|Tatsache]], Box 1 ).

In a specific, positive way, the three components of the absurd—logical, linguistic, and existential—are at work in the French word esprit; “nonsense” refers to a specific form of humor related in English to “wit” and in German to Witz ( see NONSENSE, WITTICISM ).

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