illogicality

noun

Definition of illogicalitynext
as in absurdity

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  1. absurdity
  2. ludicrousness
  3. ridiculousness
  4. paradox
  5. incongruity
  6. irony
  7. contradiction
  8. peculiarity
Noun
  • All sorts of factors—religious fervor, drug trips, the absurdities of aging—an unmoor a person’s mind and spirit.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • Still, the gleeful absurdity of that concept came with its own humanity.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
Definition of absurdity
Noun
  • Well, the Premier League table is definitely worth looking at, if only to marvel at its ludicrousness.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Definition of ludicrousness
Noun
  • There’s a point every summer when just about any of us could use a dose of ridiculousness.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026
  • Foreigners are visiting the United States, having fun, finding joy in the ridiculousness of American abundance and telling the internet about it.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
Definition of ridiculousness
Noun
  • The solution to the AI speed paradox isn’t deploying more AI tools to deliver more and more content.
    — Jamie Garverick, Fortune, 15 July 2026
  • The two lovers are forced to confront their own psychological paradox to make sense out of their unusual, newfound connection, the news release stated.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
Definition of paradox
Noun
  • Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Definition of incongruity
Noun
  • One of the ironies of the facility was that, for an ICE jail, actual ICE officers were scarce.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • The irony here is that if the referee had not shown a yellow card to Paredes, the incident could not have been reviewed on the merits of Embolo’s dive alone.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of irony
Noun
  • That contradiction has become one of the defining stories of modern Atlanta.
    — Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 17 July 2026
  • Nothing illustrates European contradictions more clearly than energy imports.
    — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of contradiction
Noun
  • Szymborska draws upon the semantic peculiarities of her native tongue to underscore the point.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • The subject does not have a lot of hard-and-fast rules; wars share common characteristics but each conflict has its own peculiarities and exigent circumstances.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of peculiarity
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