Antonym: rationality. Similar words: absurd, absurdly, reductio ad absurdum, sturdily, perdition, nudity, oddity, heredity. Meaning: [-dətɪ] n. 1. a message whose content is at variance with reason 2. a ludicrous folly.
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1 The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.
2 The conversation trailed off into absurdity.
3 Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
4 The fallacy has been exposed in its naked absurdity.
5 The proposal borders upon the absurdity.
6 I find myself growing increasingly angry at the absurdity of the situation.
7 This answer reaches the height of absurdity.
8 I had to laugh at the absurdity of the scene.
9 Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.
10 That leads to the social absurdity of the poorer members of society paying taxes to subsidize the richer.
11 Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
12 My brain wandered off surveying the amorous absurdity of it.
13 Behind the current absurdity here lies a novel assertion by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that has gone unexamined for too long.
14 The absurdity of describing a nationality she distrusted to a man she knew she loathed struck her at once.
15 The modern anguish stems from the absurdity of the allegory, once its center, divine Will,(www.Sentencedict.com) is removed.
16 He conveys vividly the absurdity of a situation, but he is incurious about the underlying processes which shape it.
17 Initially, it was the existential absurdity of his predicament that reduced Sooty to silence.
18 Standing there naked, I was suddenly struck by the absurdity of the situation.
19 It was only later that she could see the absurdity of the situation.
20 Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality, irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia
21 The writers have a long way to go to scale these Olympian heights of absurdity, but they're trying.
22 In the womenswear industry, designers can offer panache without absurdity through color, varying hemlines, adornment and more.
23 The sheer cost of trained staff and the difficulties with obtaining spare parts are two indications of the absurdity of the idea.
24 His own career is an exemplar of survival in the face of absurdity as well as adversity.
25 Still, as a post-Calvino performance, this novel has the merit of being fairly convincingly dissatisfied with its own absurdity.
26 Parliamentary material is admissible where the legislation is ambiguous, uncertain or leads to an absurdity.
27 They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.
28 But the person with sufficient reason for his faith can avoid the otherwise powerful down-tow toward nonsense and absurdity.
29 Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed, and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity.
30 Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity, absurdity and misunderstanding.
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