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See definition of absurdness on Dictionary.com
  • as infoolishness
  • as inimbecility
  • as inmonkey business
  • as insenselessness

synonyms for absurdness

  • absurdity
  • bunk
  • craziness
  • folly
  • indiscretion
  • insanity
  • irrationality
  • irresponsibility
  • lunacy
  • rubbish
  • silliness
  • stupidity
  • claptrap
  • foolery
  • impracticality
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • insensibility
  • mistake
  • poppycock
  • senselessness
  • tommyrot
  • twaddle
  • unwiseness
  • weakness
  • carrying-on
  • dumb trick
  • fool trick
  • horse feathers
  • ludicrousness
  • preposterousness
  • unreasonableness
  • witlessness

antonyms for absurdness

MOST RELEVANT
  • judgment
  • sense
  • wisdom
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • circumspection
  • prudence
  • seriousness
  • thoughtfulness
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    How to use absurdness in a sentence

    Fields finished with as many touchdown passes as incompletions, which is absurd.
    JUSTIN FIELDS PUT NO. 1 ALABAMA — AND THE NFL — ON NOTICE WITH A MASTERFUL SUGAR BOWLBARRY SVRLUGAJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
    They will always be victims of their own success, burdened with having to play up to an absurd standard.
    TREVOR LAWRENCE AND JUSTIN FIELDS WILL REKINDLE THEIR RELUCTANT RIVALRY IN CFP SEMIFINALJERRY BREWERJANUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST
    We’re so far into this pandemic now that it’s easy to forget just how absurd the notion of a mask broker truly is.
    “THOSE OF US WHO DON’T DIE ARE GOING TO QUIT”: A CRUSH OF PATIENTS, DWINDLING SUPPLIES AND THE NURSE WHO LOST HOPEBY J. DAVID MCSWANEDECEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICA
    Like the promise of pure Egyptian cotton, it is easy for companies to inflate their thread count to an absurd number.
    BEST SHEETS: CHOOSE THE RIGHT BED LINENS FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEPCARSEN JOENKDECEMBER 18, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
    It’s absurd that the Forest Service is opening more lands to logging before they restore all of the streams that have already been degraded by the timber industry.
    LOGGERS COULD SOON SLICE THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FORESTS IN THE USBY BJORN DIHLE/ OUTDOOR LIFESEPTEMBER 30, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
    In 1971, the notion of women’s equality was absurd to most people.
    GINSBURG’S LEGAL VICTORIES FOR WOMEN LED TO LANDMARK ANTI-DISCRIMINATION RULINGS FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY, TOOLGBTQ-EDITORSEPTEMBER 24, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
    The Key to the Brontë Works shows the absurdness of such a claim.
    THE KEY TO THE BRONT WORKSJOHN MALHAM-DEMBLEBY
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