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Noun Concept
Categories: Popular culture, Articles with short description, Existentialist concepts
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absurdity  absurdness  ridiculousness  absurdities  absurdity doctrine
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A message whose content is at variance with reason WordNet 3.0
English:
humor
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A message whose content is at variance with reason WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An absurdity is a state or condition of being extremely unreasonable, meaningless or unsound in reason so as to be irrational or not taken seriously. Wikipedia
General and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense Wikipedia Disambiguation
Extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously Wikidata
The quality of being absurd; absurdity. Wiktionary
The characteristic of being ridiculous. Wiktionary
Characteristic of being ridiculous. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
nonsense
DERIVATION
absurd
absurd
farcical
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Otto's encyclopedia
OPPOSITE OF
reason
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
Wikipedia
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absurdity
Wikidata
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absurdity
Wiktionary
EN
absurdness, ridiculousness
Wikipedia Redirections
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absurdities, Absurdity (humor), absurdity doctrine, Hobbes' Table of Absurdity

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