absurdness

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Noun
  • The Studio is really more about the big Hollywood system and the machine and the craziness that ensues.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • If anyone remembers the craziness of the MarketWatch IPO, that’s what really got the dot-com movement going and turned a lot of bankers’ heads.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Protesters have slammed the notions and multiple attendees wore inflatable frog and animal costumes to point to the absurdity of the claims of danger.
    Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Orphan Master’s Son, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, follows a North Korean man struggling to survive amid the cruelty and madness of a modern totalitarian regime.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • No orgies, no drug madness, no trouble with the law.
    Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • No, but the line captures the aristocracy’s witlessness.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement With apt timing, manner, and physicality, DiCaprio translates Bob’s foolishness into a dazzling comedic show.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Casaubon’s quest stands as both an indictment of overreach and a warning about the senselessness of such sweeping comparisons.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Absurdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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