What is another word for absurdity?
Synonyms for absurdity
æbˈsɜr dɪ ti, -ˈzɜr-ab·sur·di·ty
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word absurdity.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
absurdity
Synonyms:
contradiction, demonstration, nonsense, paradox, sophism
Princeton's WordNet
absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousnessnoun
a message whose content is at variance with reason
Synonyms:
ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, sillinessabsurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessnoun
a ludicrous folly
"the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
Synonyms:
ridiculousness, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, giddiness, silliness
Dictionary of English Synonymes
absurditynoun
Synonyms:
unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdnessabsurditynoun
Synonyms:
PARADOX, MARE'S NEST, CART BEFORE THE HORSE, absurd thing
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
absurditynoun
Synonyms:
inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "absurdity":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#6500 | demonstration | |
#12351 | nonsense | |
#15245 | paradox | |
#17944 | contradiction | |
#37614 | absurdity | |
#42354 | aberration | |
#45111 | silliness | |
#130808 | absurdum | |
#149795 | ridiculousness | |
#152364 | giddiness |
How to use absurdity in a sentence?
Joseph Heller was very prophetic and this has become more apparent as we move more deeply into this age of anxiety and absurdity, the novel is filled with crazy older men who are delusionally invested in the sense of their own glory and importance, and who are comically clueless. We have one of those guys in the White House right now, so it feels way more relevant even than it was a couple of years ago.
I kept coming back to the inherent absurdity of the idea that race can be successfully performed, but at the same time, the implications of race and of racism are felt generations deep, they follow people from the cradle to the grave.
Neither the authorities nor any groups of citizens have the right to violate the law and carry the situation to the point of absurdity or cause scuffles with the authorities, this is against the law, and all who committed these violations have to be held accountable under the Russian law.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Were in a fog of legal absurdity.
Translations for absurdity
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
Get even more translations for absurdity »
Translation
Find a translation for the absurdity synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"absurdity." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 24 Apr. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/absurdity>.
Discuss these absurdity synonyms with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In