Noun:

நகைப்பிற்கிடமான செயல் (அ) பேச்சு, அறிவின்பால் ஒத்திராமை,

absurdity's Usage Examples:

Fechner was saved from this absurdity, but only to fall into the greater absurdity of his own panpsychism.

Let us grant that there is as much intellectual absurdity in acting unjustly as in denying that two and two make four; still, if a man has to choose between absurdity and unhappiness, he will naturally prefer the former; and Clarke, as we have already seen, is not really prepared to maintain that such preference is irrational.

In effect molecule to man evolution is a belief in the logical absurdity of undirected progress.

Green in the first chapter of his Prolegomena to Ethics, involves the absurdity that our whole experience is a tissue of relations with no points of attachment on which the relations depend.

Concordia discors pointed out the absurdity of the constant tendency to multiply oaths, while "remonstrances," "narratives," "queries," "prescriptions," "vindications," "declarations" and "statements" were scattered broadcast.

"One capital argument of the Christians was the absurdity of a man making an idol and then being afraid of or adoring the work of his own hands.

The Zohar, that farrago of absurdity and spiritual devotion, was the weapon with which these Christians defended Jewish literature against hostile ecclesiastic bodies (Abrahams, Jew.

Plutarch remarked the fact that the Greek myths of Cronus, of Dionysus, of Apollo and the Python, and of Demeter, " all the things that are shrouded in mystic ceremonies and are presented in rites," " do not fall short in absurdity of the legends about Osiris and Typhon.

And even apparently apolitical absurdity is on some level an appropriate response to mass panic.

The system of setting nations by the ears with the view of settling the quarrels of a few reigning houses was reduced to absurdity when the people, as in these cases, came to be partitioned and exchanged without the assertion or negation of a single principle affecting their interests or rousing their emotions.

Synonyms:

nonsense, ridiculousness, meaninglessness, nonsensicality, bunk, absurdness, hokum,

Antonyms:

statecraft, knowledgeableness, intelligence, seriousness, meaningful,