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Definition of Absurdity
Absurdity
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack



Absurdity Translations
absurdity in Dutch is onding, absurditeit, ongerijmdheid
absurdity in Spanish is absurdidad
absurdity in Swedish is orimlighet


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