Antonyms for absurdity
æbˈsɜr dɪ ti, -ˈzɜr-ab·sur·di·ty

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1. absurdity

   Antonyms:
   axiom, truism

   Synonyms:
   contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism

Matched Categories

1. • Folly
   • Nonsense

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1. absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousnessnoun

   a message whose content is at variance with reason

   Synonyms:
   ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, silliness

2. absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessnoun

   a ludicrous folly

   "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

   Synonyms:
   ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, giddiness, silliness

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1. absurditynoun

   Synonyms:
   inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness

How to use absurdity in a sentence?

1. Luke Davies:

   Joseph Heller was very prophetic and this has become more apparent as we move more deeply into this age of anxiety and absurdity, the novel is filled with crazy older men who are delusionally invested in the sense of their own glory and importance, and who are comically clueless. We have one of those guys in the White House right now, so it feels way more relevant even than it was a couple of years ago.

2. Agnes Repplier:

   People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

3. Ambrose Bierce:

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

4. Al Franken:

   I had a career in identifying absurdity, and I know it when I see it.

5. Napoleon Bonaparte:

   In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

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