Facing a cold, hostile universe, these playwrights felt that what happens in life cannot be explained logically, language is imprecise and that traditional structures of plays fail to reflect the ridiculousness, anxiety and chaos of the world. which "ism" is this?

Absurd-ism

Explanation:

Term Absurd refers to the struggle of human where on the one side it tries to keep inherent values and meaning in life but on the other side, it's inability to find any in meaningless and irrational universe. So Absurd arises due to contradictory nature of two at the same time.

Absurd-ism as a philosophy tries to explore the fundamental nature of absurdity and how an individual after becoming conscious about absurdity should respond to it. It as a belief system was born during the movement of European existentialist and after 2nd World War it provided the environment for absurd views and allowed it's popular development, especially in France.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is ; unified