Synonyms for ABSURDITY
æbˈsɜr dɪ ti, -ˈzɜr-ab·sur·di·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. absurdity

   Synonyms:
   contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism

   Antonyms:
   axiom, truism

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousnessnoun

   a message whose content is at variance with reason

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

Matched Categories

1. • Folly
   • Nonsense

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. absurditynoun

   Synonyms:
   unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness

2. absurditynoun

   Synonyms:
   PARADOX, MARE'S NEST, CART BEFORE THE HORSE, absurd thing

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. absurditynoun

   Synonyms:
   inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "absurdity":

   nonsense, aberration, absurdum

How to pronounce ABSURDITY?

How to say ABSURDITY in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use ABSURDITY in a sentence?

1. Robert Hewison:

   Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

2. Thomas Hobbes:

   The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

3. Meiram Bendat:

   Imagine someone going to a hospital and being told you can't get open-heart surgery in the midst of a heart attack because you haven't tried aspirin or nitroglycerin first. That's the absurdity of it, it's just a way to discourage higher levels of care that we would never tolerate in the non-psychiatric context.

4. Robert Wright:

   Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

5. Junius:

   When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.