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Webster 1913 Edition
Absurdity
Ab-surd′i-ty
(-ĭ-ty̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Absurdities
(-tĭz)
. [L.
absurditas
: cf. F. absurdite
.] 1.
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
“The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.” Locke.
2.
That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
His travels were full of
absurdities
. Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Absurdity
ABSURD'ITY
,Noun.
1.
The quality of being inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. Want of judgment, applied to men; want of propriety, applied to things.2.
That which is absurd; in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men.Definition 2024
absurdity
absurdity
English
Noun
absurdity (countable and uncountable, plural absurdities)
- (obsolete, rare) Dissonance. [Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 17th century.][3]
- (countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. [First attested in the late 15th century.][3]
- (Can we date this quote?), Johnson, (Please provide the title of the work):
- His travels were full of absurdities.
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- (uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. [First attested in the early 16th century.][3]
- (Can we date this quote?), John Locke, (Please provide the title of the work):
- The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- Neither [Jones] […] 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."
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Translations
the quality of being absurd
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an absurd action
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References
- ↑ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], ISBN 0-394-43600-8), page 7
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 8
- 1 2 3 4 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 10