Absurdity

Quick meaning: Absurdity is a noun meaning (countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

Meaning

(countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
2. (obsolete, rare) Dissonance.

Example Sentences

The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number

Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …

There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.

Word Forms

• absurdities

Synonyms for absurdity

Depending on context, synonyms include fatuity, silliness, ridiculousness, fatuousness, absurdness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include absurdness, ridiculousness, silliness, fatuousness, fatuity, nonsense.

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