Dictionary Definition
absurdity
Noun
1 a message whose content is at variance with
reason [syn: absurdness, ridiculousness]
2 a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the
absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Latin absurditas: compare French absurditéNoun
- The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound
judgment.
- The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. - Locke
- That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- His travels were full of absurdities. - Johnson
Translations
the quality of being absurd
- German: Absurdität
- Hungarian: abszurdum
an absurd action
- German: Absurdität
- Hungarian: abszurdum, képtelenség
- ttbc Norwegian: meningsløshet, urimelighet
- ttbc Turkish: saçmalık
- ttbc Ukrainian: :uk:абсурд
Extensive Definition
Absurd can refer to:
- Absurdism, a philosophy born of existentialism
- absurdity, with small "a", is a form of surreal humour
- Theatre of the Absurd, an artform utilizing the philosophy of absurdism
- Absurd (band), a National Socialist Black Metal band.
- Absurd (Fluke song), an electronic music single by the band Fluke
- Cabaret Jar, a slang synonym for absurdity
- mathematics/logic: a statement that is clearly not correct, as in reductio ad absurdum
absurdity in German: Absurd
absurdity in Dutch: Absurd
absurdity in Norwegian Nynorsk: Absurd
absurdity in Polish: Absurd
absurdity in Portuguese: Absurdo
absurdity in Russian: Абсурд (значения)
absurdity in Finnish: Absurdi
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absurdness, act of folly,
aimlessness,
amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble,
bizarreness,
bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness, daftness, deformity, dottiness, double-talk,
drivel, drollery, drollness, drool, dumb trick, eccentricity, emptiness, error, fallacy, fantasticality, fantasticalness,
fatuity, fecklessness,
fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, folly, foolishness, freakishness, fruitlessness, fudge, funniness, fustian, futility, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble,
gobbledygook,
grotesqueness,
grotesquerie,
hilarity, hocus-pocus,
hollowness, hopelessness, humbug, humorousness, illogicality, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, impotence, imprudence, inanity, inconceivability,
incongruity,
indiscretion,
ineffectiveness,
ineffectuality,
inefficacy, insanity, irrationality, jabber, jargon, laughability, ludicrousness, malformation, meaninglessness,
monstrosity,
monstrousness,
mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, no chance, nonsense, nonsensicality, nugacity, nuttiness, oddity, otiosity, outlandishness, outrageousness, oxymoron, pack of nonsense,
palaver, paradox, peculiarity, pointlessness, prate, prattle, preposterousness,
pricelessness,
profitlessness,
purposelessness,
quaintness, queerness, quizzicalness, rant, rat race, richness, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, self-contradiction,
senselessness,
silliness, singularity,
skimble-skamble, sottise, strangeness, stuff and
nonsense, stultiloquence, stupid
thing, stupidity,
teratism, the absurd,
the funny side, the impossible, trash, triviality, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle,
unimaginability,
unproductiveness,
unprofitability,
unprofitableness,
unreasonableness,
unthinkability,
unwise step, valuelessness, vanity, vaporing, vicious circle,
waffling, weirdness, what cannot be,
what cannot happen, whimsicalness, wildness, witlessness, wittiness, worthlessness