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absurdity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | absurdness, ridiculousness |
| Type of | nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum, bunk |
| Derivation | absurd |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
| Type of | folly, foolishness, unwiseness |
| Derivation | absurd |
the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior.
Examples of absurdity
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It was the kind of gleeful absurdity that you rarely got in American newspapers.
From the cnn.com
But admitting its absurdity would also mean admitting the regime's unpopularity.
From the economist.com
Modern TV uses absurdity to bring viewers into moments, some funny, some moving.
From the economist.com
Like all National Hunt folk, he sees the glory and the absurdity of his passion.
From the guardian.co.uk
This book, like most cancer memoirs, hits on the absurdity that cancer produces.
From the latimes.com
That this absurdity would happen in America today, by educators, is breathtaking.
From the washingtontimes.com
He's unchanging, which allows those around him to explore their full absurdity.
From the latimes.com
Your reduction of the practice to chiropractics is a self reduction to absurdity.
From the forbes.com
That's a logical absurdity the Reverend Dodgson would certainly have appreciated.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A message whose content is at variance with reason
- A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
- (absurd) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
- (absurd) incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to ...
- (the absurd) absurd: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
- Absurd is a German National Socialist black metal band, and has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehu00F6rde fu00FCr Verfassungsschutz.
- (Absurd (film)) Absurd (also known as Rosso Sangue, Anthropophagus 2, Horrible, The Grim Reaper 2) is a 1981 Italian horror film, an unofficial sequel to The Anthropophagus Beast. It was directed by Joe D'Amato and written by George Eastman.
- (Absurd (Fluke song)) "Absurd" is a single by the English electronic music band Fluke. The single has made many soundtrack appearances, including Sin City, '', Wipeout (video game series), Enter the Matrix and a Ribena commercial as well as an episode of the 2008 NBC series Knight Rider''. ...
- (The Absurd) The Absurd is a band founded in the autumn of 1984 in Cologne, Germany. It has a constantly rotating line-up performing throughout Germany led by Michael Frank. However, the unitive concept of the band is to allow the musicians to play whatever type of music they feel like playing . ...
