absurdity

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

Equivalents

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.”

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