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Synonyms for absurdity
æbˈsɜr dɪ ti, -ˈzɜr-ab·sur·di·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
absurdity
Synonyms:
contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism
Princeton's WordNet
absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousnessnoun
a message whose content is at variance with reason
Synonyms:
ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, sillinessabsurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessnoun
a ludicrous folly
"the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
Synonyms:
ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, giddiness, silliness
Dictionary of English Synonymes
absurditynoun
Synonyms:
unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdnessabsurditynoun
Synonyms:
PARADOX, MARE'S NEST, CART BEFORE THE HORSE, absurd thing
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
absurditynoun
Synonyms:
inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness
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List of paraphrases for "absurdity":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6500 | demonstration | |
#12351 | nonsense | |
#15245 | paradox | |
#17944 | contradiction | |
#37614 | absurdity | |
#42354 | aberration | |
#45111 | silliness | |
#130808 | absurdum | |
#149795 | ridiculousness | |
#152364 | giddiness |
How to use absurdity in a sentence?
Or it ’ll get them to reconsider the absurdity of their previous decision.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...
It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.”
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
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