absurdness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for absurdness
Noun
  • The violence is always relentless, always builds, to a point of absurdity, where exaggeration becomes the point, and the joke.
    Armond White, National Review, 11 June 2025
  • Of all the absurdity in these films, that’s your issue?
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Once again, the film is about the anguish of losing a loved one and the the desire to connect with the dead one more time, the annihilating madness of grief driving a person to unspeakable ends.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
  • As Scott stumbles through a chaotic weekend, Neil proves a ride-or-die friend who may be the only sane voice in the madness of wedding season.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Such utter foolishness, by another blind leading the blind, liberal democrat.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
  • Mindless as tariffs are, the foolishness of tariff imposition is magnified when the individual behind the implementation demands that prices not reflect the initial error.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The whole sketch blended melodrama with inanity to great effect.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
  • This column started out as The Week in Stupid, a roundup of the jaw-dropping inanities of the last seven days.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2025
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“Absurdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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