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Absurdity

//əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a ludicrous folly wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a message whose content is at variance with reason wordnet
  5. 5
    Dissonance. countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable

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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