Definition of Absurdity

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Definition of Absurdity
	Absurdity The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. Related Definitions: Absurd, Action, An, Being, Contradiction, Inconsistent, Is, Judgment, Logical, Obvious, Of, Or, Quality, Reason, Sound, That, The, Truth, Which, With

Absurdity Quotations

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Absurdity Translations

absurdity in Dutch is onding, absurditeit, ongerijmdheid
absurdity in Spanish is absurdidad
absurdity in Swedish is orimlighet

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