absurdity

1. 1.

   a message whose content is at variance with reason

   Synonymsabsurdnessridiculousness

   Broadernonsense
2. 2.

   a ludicrous folly

   “the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior”

   Synonymsfatuityfatuousnesssilliness

   Broaderfolly

Other forms of absurdity

plural

absurdities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about absurdity

What does absurdity mean?

absurdity means "a message whose content is at variance with reason". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in absurdity?

absurdity has 4 syllables: ab-sur-di-ty. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /əbˈsɝdəti/.

What is another word for absurdity?

Close synonyms include absurdness, ridiculousness, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absurdity a common word?

absurdity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.