Term: theater of the absurd: plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless
Candidate hypernym: play: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage → 1
Candidate hypernym: viol: any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family → 0
Candidate hypernym: zeitgeist: the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation → 0
Candidate hypernym: forward: a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team → 0
Candidate hypernym: plectomycetes: class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration) → 0
Candidate hypernym: extremity: that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso → 0
Candidate hypernym: celery pine: Australasian evergreen conifer having a graceful head of foliage resembling celery that is composed of phyllodes borne in the axils of scalelike leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: castle: a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack → 0
Candidate hypernym: slave-making ant: an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants → 0
Candidate hypernym: historical document: writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypoxis: small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass → 0