absurdity
noun
1 absurdity
A message whose content is at variance with reason.
synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness.
Roget 497:
absurdity,
absurdness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility
etc.
499;
alogy†,
nonsense,
utter nonsense;
paradox,
inconsistency;
stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†;
nugacity†.
blunder,
muddle,
bull;
Irishism†,
Hibernicism†;
slipslop†;
anticlimax,
bathos;
sophism
etc.
477.
farce,
galimathias†,
amphigouri†,
rhapsody;
farrago
etc.
(disorder)
59;
betise [Fr.];
extravagance,
romance;
sciamachy†.
sell,
pun,
verbal quibble,
macaronic†.
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish
etc.
(no meaning)
517;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
moonshine,
stuff;
mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion.
vagary,
tomfoolery,
poppycock,
mummery,
monkey trick,
boutade [Fr.],
escapade.
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Roget 517:
meaninglessness,
unmeaningness
etc.
adj.†;
scrabble.
empty sound,
dead letter,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;"
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. "
nonsense,
utter nonsense,
gibberish;
jargon,
jabber,
mere words,
hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble,
baverdage,
baragouin†,
platitude,
niaiserie†;
inanity;
flap-doodle;
rigmarole,
rodomontade;
truism;
nugae canorae [Lat.];
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug;
poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff,
stuff and nonsense;
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle;
absurdity
etc.
497;
vagueness
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal]
boilerplate,
clich??.
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Roget 853:
ridiculousness
etc.
adj.;
comicality,
oddity
etc.
adj.;
extravagance,
drollery.
farce,
comedy;
burlesque
etc.
(ridicule)
856;
buffoonery
etc.
(fun)
840;
frippery;
doggerel verses;
absurdity
etc.
497;
bombast
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
anticlimax,
bathos;
eccentricity,
monstrosity
etc.
(unconformity)
83;
laughingstock
etc.
857.
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Dutch: absurditeit
2 absurdity
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 ... show more.
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