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Definition of absurdity
absurdities
1 : the quality or state of being absurd : absurdness They laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
2 : something that is absurd the absurdities of life
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Examples of absurdity in a Sentence
to say men can't cook as well as women is of course an absurdity
the absurdity of expecting a 98-year-old woman to adequately supervise four six-year-olds
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Footage of the race, which was supposed to have been shot by a BBC crew, with James Marsden playing the reporter who covers the entire event, reveals the absurdities that unfold along the way.
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Maybe there’s peace of mind in giving yourself a break and allowing that some of your preference for order is just normal pragmatism, and not all a consequence of parental absurdity.
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This emotional thread was balanced with the absurdity of the Minions.
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National Review's Armond White writes: Once again, the Transformer series verges on absurdity but that's less important than the unique big-screen spectacle of Bay's pop-art and futurist filmmaking.
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That scene sums up GLOW, which takes everything over-the-top about professional wrestling, pushes it to higher levels of absurdity and melodrama, and finds something deeply personal, explicitly political, and wonderfully brute-force awesome.
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What better way to demonstrate the absurdity of the collusion accusations than by vigorously condemning Moscow’s exploits?
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My colleague Laura Entis points out some of the absurdities surrounding breathless health study articles which seem to imply that just about everything—from certain diets to complaining to, yes, cats—can/will kill you.
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One astute commenter during our in-game chat noticed the absurdity of it.
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ABSURDITY Defined for Kids
absurdity
playDefinition of absurdity for Students
absurdities
1 : the fact of being ridiculous the absurdity of the situation
2 : something that is ridiculous Every day there is some new absurdity to deal with.
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