 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
absurdity
noun
1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: {absurdness},
{ridiculousness}]
2: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of
the clown's behavior" [syn: {fatuity}, {fatuousness}, {silliness}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Absurdity \Ab*surd"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), noun; 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, fiddle-faddle,
fiddledeedee, 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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ABSURDITY, noun A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with
one's own opinion.
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