ABSURDNESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

absurdness

noun

Definition of absurdness

as in craziness

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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, 1982 Before the kids, the craziness and the reality show, the head-over-heels Brits tied the knot in Maui, Hawaii.

— Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
The forecast for Thursday calls for craziness.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of craziness

Noun

The only thing this movie takes seriously is its wholehearted commitment to absurdity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Mason has a field day riffing on the absurdities of contemporary academic culture and flagging the divides that separate what are often called coastal elites at the western and eastern edges of the country.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026

Definition of absurdity

Noun

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB shares his method behind the madness.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
Neill plays Mark in director Andrzej Żuławski’s fearless study of madness, opposite the incredible Isabelle Adjani as his increasingly disturbed wife, Anna.

— Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of madness

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Any larger Hollywood studio would have likely insisted on a grander finale, but The Death of Robin Hood, produced by A24, left me pondering the foolishness of my need for such a denouement.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
The popular Instagram page @touronsofnationalparks is known for spotlighting the foolishness of people in national parks.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026

Definition of foolishness

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But the flight to extremism, and the metastasizing inanity, is a two-party problem, and those of us who are Democrats and who care about the importance of regrowing the dormant (if not dead) political center have an obligation to try to do something about it.

— Jeffrey Robbins, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026
The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

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