absurdity
nounEtymology
First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
- derived from absurdus
- derived from absurditas
- derived from absurdité
- inherited from absurdite
Definitions
That which is absurd
That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
- The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number
- Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
- There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.
Dissonance.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at absurdity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at absurdity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at absurdity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA