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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61 Here are several of the top ten April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.
62 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
63 There are also April Fool letters. They are composites of prankishness, deception, absurdity , folk verses, and love.
64 This behavior may appear to be the height of absurdity to some, though those with experience in these realms understand that it is quite necessary to set boundaries.
65 Dramatic irony also plays an important role in exposing flat characters' absurdity and round characters' defects.
66 April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.http://sentencedict.com
67 The original meaning of enlightenment is to explore obscuration , to eliminate absurdity, and to discovery truth.
68 Once aboard we were soon helpless with laughter at the absurdity of it.
69 Joseph Heller's novels reveal the absurdity and corruption of the American ruling clique, and the confusion and madness in the American society.
70 The script is sections of the structure, it is a cyclic structure, the script language also lost traditional narrative and communication function, and become part of absurdity.
71 The Soviet proposals reduced inspection in effect to self inspection and thus to absurdity.
72 But the bare enunciation of such an absurdity as this last renders refutation superfluous.
73 Here are several of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US Museum of Hoaxes website, for their absurdity and number of people duped.
74 But then you come to the third part of this sort of triangular absurdity, and what you get to is big financial institutions with extremely well-paid individuals, in the presumably pure free market.
75 He tries to set his characters in an absurd environment by using these odd plots, letting then speak irrelevantly to each other to show the absurdity of people's living.
76 The real Chinaman may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in his stupidity.
77 Procecutor: I am asking you to recognize the absurdity of the exclusionary rule.
78 He would probably have replied that saying "take three steps forward" or "bend backward" would be the height of absurdity.
79 British design critic John Thakara pointed to the absurdity of the current trend towards hyping design.
80 But, despite its seeming absurdity and nonsensicality, it brings to light the moral weaknesses of the English upper class and other problems in modern English society in a jocular manner.
81 In his initial exploration, Andr6 Malraux tried to use diverse actions to fight against the absurdity of life, but found the limited nature of this program.
82 Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
83 The non-logicality of narrative methods is represented in three aspects: the disorderliness, contingency, and absurdity in narration.
84 The Diamond Necklace, a short fiction written by Maupassant, is a world of metaphors. In the story, the protagonist Mathilde shifts from self-deception to salvation but ends up with absurdity.
85 Picasso, following in Sesan's footsteps and complying unintentionally with the soul of phenomenalism "going back to the fact in itself", deeply faced the real absurdity of human existence.
86 The paper analyses absurdity in the novel Slaughterhouse - Five on the basis of the text - analysis and existentialism.
87 When the absurdity of this biologism and organicism became obvious, the sociologists completely abandoned the ambitious pretensions of Comte.
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