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[ noun ] a message whose content is at variance with reason

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

Remember how BY a series of booking absurdities Chicago missed seeing the Bolshoi_Ballet ?

Nikolai_Cherkasov , the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander_Nevsky and Ivan_the_Terrible , performs the lanky Don_Quixote , and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man .

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

He was conscious of a growing sense of absurdity .

Related terms

nonsense

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[ noun ] a ludicrous folly

Examples

"the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

Used in print

(Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)

This was a training_ship and the training would continue , but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized .

Related terms

folly

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