How are this 2 different?
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They run along the same vein and I like to think about it this way: Nihilism is a stance and Absurdism is more a description.
Nihilism is the recognition of things (philosophically speaking, life) being meaningless. Absurdism describes our state of tension in realizing things are meaningless and still struggling to apply meaningfulness.
The two are very similar. I am an absurdist and the difference for me is the decision as to how one confronts the ‘absurd’: I choose to embrace the idea of meaninglessness. This is something Camus (credited with popularizing Absurdism) suggests as a solution. Nihilism itself doesn’t provide a solution, per se.
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