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absurdity

ab·sur·di·ty [ əb-ˈsər-də-tē]

absurdity

noun

[əb-ˈsər-də-tē]

plural absurdities

Definition of absurdity

1 : the quality or state of being absurd : absurdness
//They laughed at the absurdity of the situation.

2 : something that is absurd
//the absurdities of life

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Recent Examples on the Web

//Any book that delves deeply into the psyche of a country—or even presumes that countries have psyches—is bound to occasionally skirt the edges of absurdity.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, "From Little Englanders to Brexiteers," 11 Nov. 2019
//This sort of absurdity is part of the charm of the beautifully impractical Chiron.
— Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN, "Road tripping in a $3 million Bugatti," 5 Oct. 2019
//Our rhetoric will remain overheated, and our hyperbole will reach new heights of absurdity — perfect grist for Sunday morning news shows and late-night comedians.
— Gary Abernathy, Twin Cities, "Gary Abernathy: How does this all end? Just as it should: With the 2020 election.," 3 Oct. 2019
//The anecdotes, some of which are funny, some horrifying, are edged with a bleak sense of absurdity and shadowed by the rapid onset of oblivion.
— New York Times, "‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key," 27 Sep. 2019
//Think about the absurdity of this: Companies are using a material made to last forever to produce products designed to be used once and then thrown away.
— WSJ, "The Issue Is Near-Eternal Plastic Containers," 10 July 2019
//In the end the movie tilts a little more than Get Out (which did deal in possession and soul-horror, albeit without an explicitly satanic element) toward splatter and absurdity, a little less toward metaphysical dread.
— Ross Douthat, National Review, "Horror-Comedy Ready or Not Plays on Primal Human Fears," 12 Sep. 2019
//Ecoterrorism loses the aura of absurdity when every month brings a new estimate of the coming death toll from our melting ice caps.
— Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, "Nell Zink’s Satire Raises the Stakes," 26 Aug. 2019
//Further Reading Disney’s Gravity Falls is weird Americana meets Lovecraft for kids More often than that, Enter the Florpus elicits laughs—serious out-loud howls—for its willingness to abruptly disobey all logic and reason in the name of absurdity.
— Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus," 16 Aug. 2019

First Known Use of absurdity

circa 1525, in the meaning defined at sense 2

History and Etymology for absurdity

Middle English absurditee "dissonance, unjust practice," borrowed from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French absurdité, borrowed from Late Latin absurditāt-, absurditās, from Latin absurdus absurd entry 1 + -itāt-, -itās -ity

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