Absurdity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Absurdity \Ab*surd"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Absurdities}
     (-t[i^]z). [L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.]
     1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious
        truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the
        actual idea of an infinite number." --Locke.
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     2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical
        contradiction.
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              His travels were full of absurdities. --Johnson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  absurdity
       n 1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: {absurdness},
             {ridiculousness}]
       2: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of
          the clown's behavior" [syn: {fatuity}, {fatuousness}, {silliness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "absurdity":
     absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness,
     babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, bizarreness,
     bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness,
     claptrap, craziness, curiousness, daftness, deformity, dottiness,
     double-talk, drivel, drollery, drollness, drool, dumb trick,
     eccentricity, emptiness, error, fallacy, fantasticality,
     fantasticalness, fatuity, fecklessness, fiddle-faddle,
     fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, folly, foolishness, freakishness,
     fruitlessness, fudge, funniness, fustian, futility, gabble,
     galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook,
     grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hilarity, hocus-pocus, hollowness,
     hopelessness, humbug, humorousness, illogicality, impossibility,
     impossible, impossibleness, impotence, imprudence, inanity,
     inconceivability, incongruity, indiscretion, ineffectiveness,
     ineffectuality, inefficacy, insanity, irrationality, jabber,
     jargon, laughability, ludicrousness, malformation, meaninglessness,
     monstrosity, monstrousness, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie,
     no chance, nonsense, nonsensicality, nugacity, nuttiness, oddity,
     otiosity, outlandishness, outrageousness, oxymoron,
     pack of nonsense, palaver, paradox, peculiarity, pointlessness,
     prate, prattle, preposterousness, pricelessness, profitlessness,
     purposelessness, quaintness, queerness, quizzicalness, rant,
     rat race, richness, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole,
     rodomontade, rubbish, self-contradiction, senselessness, silliness,
     singularity, skimble-skamble, sottise, strangeness,
     stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, stupid thing, stupidity,
     teratism, the absurd, the funny side, the impossible, trash,
     triviality, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle,
     unimaginability, unproductiveness, unprofitability,
     unprofitableness, unreasonableness, unthinkability, unwise step,
     valuelessness, vanity, vaporing, vicious circle, waffling,
     weirdness, what cannot be, what cannot happen, whimsicalness,
     wildness, witlessness, wittiness, worthlessness
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ABSURDITY, n.  A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with
  one's own opinion.