- absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness - a message whose content is at variance with reason
--1 is a kind of nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
- 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