Thesaurus results for ILLOGICALITY

illogicality

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as in absurdity

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Sadly, Showalter and the scriptwriter, Nick Antosca, are completely unable to meet these demands, with the result that the absurdities are all on the screen.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
None of this ever accumulates much weight, however, since the conflicts are all dulled by the one-note absurdity of the farcical plotting.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of absurdity

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How much funnier Shakespeare’s motley crew can be when we’re allowed to discover the variety of eccentricity and ludicrousness on display for ourselves.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
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

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Both shows attempted to offer a perspective on authentic Italian style, with Milan's incongruities as an underlying theme.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
Listeners seemed to delight in the incongruity—a semipopular rapper suddenly sounded nothing like himself.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of incongruity

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Their battles for influence, image and desire, in a Spain on the brink of collapse, are observed and narrated with fierce irony by Francisco de Goya, an uneasy witness who turns palace intrigue into a surprisingly contemporary mirror.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
The irony of America’s most famous entrapment artist facing his own public humiliation is not lost on him.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of irony

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The totality of the thing is exhausting, yet as is common in durational experiences of art, meaning and unexpected contradictions emerged.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
At its core, this film is about people in all their complexity, contradictions and humanity.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of contradiction

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By contrast, modern proponents of the existence of a ninth planet focus their searches further out, looking instead to orbital peculiarities in smaller objects that occupy the distant reaches of the solar system.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026
In that context, the extra lending since the end of June and the peculiarities of that Gordon transfer instalment make plenty of sense, as the club continues to lose cash each season, even as underlying profitability measures are much improved.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of peculiarity

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