Meaning & use
absurdity
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The quality of being wildly unreasonable, illogical, or ridiculous.
See it in a sentence
The committee laughed at the sheer absurdity of the proposed budget.
The play uses absurdity to highlight the pointlessness of bureaucratic rules.
A note on using this word
"Absurdity" can describe both a single ridiculous idea or event and the general quality of illogic, as in the philosophical or literary "theater of the absurd."
Words with a similar meaning
ridiculousnessirrationality
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Words with an opposite meaning
sensereasonableness
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