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

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  1. absurdity

    Synonyms:
    contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism

    Antonyms:
    axiom, truism

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

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

  2. absurditynoun

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. absurditynoun

    Synonyms:
    inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "absurdity":

    nonsense, aberration, absurdum

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#6500demonstration
#12351nonsense
#15245paradox
#17944contradiction
#37614absurdity
#42354aberration
#45111silliness
#130808absurdum
#149795ridiculousness
#152364giddiness

How to use absurdity in a sentence?

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections and the three wealthiest Americans owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people.

  2. Ambrose Bierce:

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

  3. Samuel Johnson:

    Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

  4. Arthur Schopenhauer:

    In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  5. Simone Weil:

    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.”


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