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[ noun ] a message whose content is at variance with reason
Synonyms 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 |
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[ noun ] a ludicrous folly
Synonyms 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 |
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