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Etymology[]

From Latin absurditas: compare French absurdité

Noun[]

Singular
Absurdity

Plural
absurdities

Absurdity (absurdities)

  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. - John Locke
    • Template:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V
      Neither [Jones]Template:... 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."
  2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
    • His travels were full of absurdities. - Johnson

Translations[]

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