Noun absurdity has 2 senses
  1. absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason
    --1 is a kind of nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
  2. absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness - a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
    --2 is a kind of folly, foolishness, unwiseness
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