Absurdity
//əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti// noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. countable
"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 …"
- 2 a ludicrous folly wordnet
- 3 The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. uncountable
"The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number"
- 4 a message whose content is at variance with reason wordnet
- 5 Dissonance. countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
Example
More examples"They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes absurdity in law enforcement."
Etymology
First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
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