'absurdity' definitions:
Definition of 'absurdity'
(from WordNet)
noun
A message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness]
noun
A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness]
Synonyms of 'absurdity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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