Get to know Absurdity better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like foolishness or folly.
Absurdity in a sentence
Absurdity meaning
- That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
- Dissonance.
Synonyms of Absurdity
Using Absurdity
- The main meaning on this page is: That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. | The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. | Dissonance.
- Useful related words include: absurdness, foolishness, folly, silliness.
- In the example corpus, absurdity often appears in combinations such as: the absurdity, absurdity of, of absurdity.
Context around Absurdity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 15 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Absurdity
- In this selection, "absurdity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, greater, obvious, rate, builds, political and making stand out and add context to how "absurdity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the absurdity of how and at the absurdity of russia. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "absurdity" sits close to words such as architectures, atv and bader, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with absurdity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Did you laugh happily at the absurdity of that name? (10 words)
It is worth playing for the absurdity of the premise alone. (11 words)
A rare gem of a controversy whose absurdity builds upon itself every day. (13 words)
I wish they hadn’t laughed, for sure, but I’m willing to bet they weren’t laughing at they were laughing in relief, and at what they considered to be the absurdity of this situation—which, I grant, is not a laughing matter. (44 words)
I suspect if we could, by some miracle, find all the short poems waiting in notebooks or scribbled on envelope backs and string them together, humans would finally have, to the absurdity and beauty of this world, an adequate response. (40 words)
The social and LinkedIn campaign, Office Party from Hell, shows the absurdity of fake office fun by using the absurdity of fake, AI-generated footage, utilising the new generation of Text to Video technology released last week. (37 words)
Did you laugh happily at the absurdity of that name? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
The social and LinkedIn campaign, Office Party from Hell, shows the absurdity of fake office fun by using the absurdity of fake, AI-generated footage, utilising the new generation of Text to Video technology released last week.
This also applies to the masters of the sharp pen, who counter and expose any absurdity of the “strong men” with an even greater absurdity.
For example, Sartre recognizes the absurdity of individual experience, while Kierkegaard explains that the absurdity of certain religious truths prevent us from reaching God rationally.
His seminal work The Courage to Be follows Kierkegaard's analysis of anxiety and life's absurdity, but puts forward the thesis that modern humans must, via God, achieve selfhood in spite of life's absurdity.
All of this is part of a familiar deluge of fake news coming out of Moscow, and the obvious absurdity of these claims could prompt U.S. officials to dismiss them.
A rare gem of a controversy whose absurdity builds upon itself every day.
A scathing commentary on the absurdity of such "therapy" while also being a fun if somewhat messed up exploration of Cartman's character, "Cartman Sucks" is rightly one of the best Cartman episodes.
As the nation embarks on this journey of absurdity, political theatrics often take centre stage in our great democracy.
Backstage at the Oscars, Kwan told reporters that their “shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity” ultimately comes out of his own navigation through dark times and depression.
Caught in an undignified open battle with the rabid far right of his party, he’s chosen to plunge down the rabbit hole of absurdity with eyes wide open.
Considering the affairs attached to the deity as secular is first rate absurdity; there is nothing secular about a temple.
Despite the situation, he was able to laugh at the absurdity of Russia’s actions.
Did you laugh happily at the absurdity of that name?
Given Ant-Man's absurdity, making this film a comedy was crucial for audience acceptance, yet it also came naturally to the story.
I applaud the man, not just for fighting against the biased justice system against fathers but also for exposing the absurdity of gender identity at the same time.
In his defense, Auderer laughed at the absurdity of how such incidents were handled and how he had witnessed similar situations unfold.
I suspect if we could, by some miracle, find all the short poems waiting in notebooks or scribbled on envelope backs and string them together, humans would finally have, to the absurdity and beauty of this world, an adequate response.
It is worth playing for the absurdity of the premise alone.
I wish they hadn’t laughed, for sure, but I’m willing to bet they weren’t laughing at they were laughing in relief, and at what they considered to be the absurdity of this situation—which, I grant, is not a laughing matter.
Most sitcoms treat the dynamics of a dysfunctional family with a heavy dose of absurdity, as it can be difficult to write gags about a situation so depressing.
Common combinations with absurdity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the absurdity 73×
- absurdity of 72×
- of absurdity 15×
- and absurdity 8×
- absurdity and 7×
- absurdity that 6×
- an absurdity 6×
- its absurdity 4×
- absurdity but 3×
- absurdity with 3×