Kafkaesque.
Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
Meaning & usage
Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
Kafkaesque bureaucracies
Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English Kafka Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Vulgar Latin -iscus Italian -escobor. French -esquebor. English -esque English Kafkaesque From Kafka + -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. Piecewise doublet of Kafkaish.
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