Meaning of ABSURDITY
| Pronunciation: | | ab'surditee
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | absurdness, fatuity, fatuousness, ridiculousness, silliness |
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| | See Also: | | folly, foolishness, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, unwiseness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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