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Meaning of absurdity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti/

Definitions

  1. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
    countable
  2. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
    uncountable
  3. Dissonance.
    countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable

Translations

Examples

“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 …”
“The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number”
“Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."”
“There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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