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absurdity

 
Thesaurus: absurdity

noun

  1. Something or someone uproariously funny or absurd: Informal hoot, joke, laugh, scream. Slang gas, howl, panic, riot. Idioms: a laugh a minute. See laughter.
  2. Foolish behavior: folly, foolery, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsense, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, tomfoolery, zaniness. Informal craziness. See ability/inability.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a message whose content is at variance with reason
  Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness

Meaning #2: a ludicrous folly
  Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness


 
 
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