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- to say men can't cook as well as women is of course an absurdity
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- the absurdity of expecting a 98-year-old woman to adequately supervise four six-year-olds
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- denseness,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- feeblemindedness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- idiocy,
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- vacuity
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“Absurdity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdity. Accessed 21 Sep. 2020.
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The first known use of absurdity was circa 1525
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