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All absurdity synonyms

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noun absurdity

  • fatuity — complacent stupidity; foolishness.
  • silliness — weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
  • farce — a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
  • craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
  • folly — the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
  • foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
  • insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
  • idiocy — utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.: All this talk of zombies coming to attack us is pure idiocy.
  • stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
  • bull — A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
  • crap — If you describe something as crap, you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.
  • illogicality — illogic.
  • improbability — the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
  • jazz — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
  • incongruity — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
  • applesauce — a relish or dessert made of apples stewed to a pulp and sweetened; (fig.) (sl.) bunkum, nonsense
  • ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
  • irrationality — the quality or condition of being irrational.
  • senselessness — destitute or deprived of sensation; unconscious.
  • inanity — lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
  • bs — BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.
  • jive — swing music or early jazz.
  • absurdness — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
  • hot air — empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
  • ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
  • unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
  • fatuousness — The characteristic of being fatuous.
  • meaninglessness — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
  • farcicality — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
  • preposterous — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
  • joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
  • nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
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