Definitions
Something ridiculous, unreasonable, or foolish.
Word origin
First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
Used in a sentence
“And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …”
“The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number”
“Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Ridiculous notion”9 letters
02“Ridiculous idea”9 letters
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