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From Latin absurditas: compare French absurdité
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Absurdity (absurdities)
- The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
- The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. - John Locke
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- Neither [Jones]Template:... 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."
- That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- His travels were full of absurdities. - Johnson
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the quality of being absurd
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an absurd action
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