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Absurdity

Absurdity Meaning & Definition
Absurdity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Absurdity?

[n] a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
[n] a message whose content is at variance with reason

Synonyms | Synonyms for Absurdity: absurdness | fatuity | fatuousness | ridiculousness | silliness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Absurdity: absurdness | act of folly | aimlessness | amphigory | anticness | babble | babblement | balderdash | bibble-babble | bizarreness | bizarrerie | blabber | blather | blunder | bombast | bootlessness | claptrap | craziness | curiousness | daftness | deformity | dottiness | double-talk | drivel | drollery | drollness | drool | dumb trick | eccentricity | emptiness | error | fallacy | fantasticality | fantasticalness | fatuity | fecklessness | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flummery | folderol | folly | foolishness | freakishness | fruitlessness | fudge | funniness | fustian | futility | gabble | galimatias | gammon | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | grotesqueness | grotesquerie | hilarity | hocus-pocus | hollowness | hopelessness | humbug | humorousness | illogicality | impossibility | impossible | impossibleness | impotence | imprudence | inanity | inconceivability | incongruity | indiscretion | ineffectiveness | ineffectuality | inefficacy | insanity | irrationality | jabber | jargon | laughability | ludicrousness | malformation | meaninglessness | monstrosity | monstrousness | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | niaiserie | no chance | nonsense | nonsensicality | nugacity | nuttiness | oddity | otiosity | outlandishness | outrageousness | oxymoron | pack of nonsense | palaver | paradox | peculiarity | pointlessness | prate | prattle | preposterousness | pricelessness | profitlessness | purposelessness | quaintness | queerness | quizzicalness | rant | rat race | richness | ridiculousness | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | self-contradiction | senselessness | silliness | singularity | skimble-skamble | sottise | strangeness | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | stupid thing | stupidity | teratism | the absurd | the funny side | the impossible | trash | triviality | trumpery | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | unimaginability | unproductiveness | unprofitability | unprofitableness | unreasonableness | unthinkability | unwise step | valuelessness | vanity | vaporing | vicious circle | waffling | weirdness | what cannot be | what cannot happen | whimsicalness | wildness | witlessness | wittiness | worthlessness

See Also | folly | foolishness | hokum | meaninglessness | nonsense | nonsensicality | unwiseness

Absurdity In Webster's Dictionary

\Ab*surd"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Absurdities} (-t[i^]z). [L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.] 1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. ``The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.'' --Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. --Johnson.

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