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absurdity [əb'sə:diti]

n. 荒谬, 悖理, 荒谬的言行

Your suggestion seems an absurdity to us.
我们认为你的建议很荒唐。
The fallacy has been exposed in its naked absurdity.
这谬论的荒诞性已被充分揭露。
His story of being kidnapped by little green men is sheer absurdity.
他说他遭到矮小的绿种人绑架，这纯粹是无稽之谈。

absurdity

[ noun ]

a message whose content is at variance with reason

<noun.communication>

a ludicrous folly

<noun.attribute>

the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior

Absurdity \Ab*surd"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Absurdities}
(-t[i^]z). [L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.]
1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious
truth, reason, or sound judgment. ``The absurdity of the
actual idea of an infinite number.'' --Locke.

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

His travels were full of absurdities. --Johnson.

For, if this magnificent exhibition at the Academy does nothing else, it demonstrates for ever the absurdity of the distinction that would make oil on canvas inherently superior to water-colour on paper, simply because it is oil on canvas.
"Yes," she said. "I just realized the absurdity of it." Her testimony came one day after state Supreme Court Justice Harold Rothwax denied a defense motion to change Steinberg's plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
This absurdity explains in large part what's going on in Roraima," the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo said Wednesday.
Anyone who crossed Waugh's path was immediately made into a figure of absurdity and ridicule.
This sort of shock therapy has gotten to the point of absurdity." In a strange way, Gunderloy says, the magazines he gets tell him a lot about what's going on in the country.
The latest absurdity grows out of a demand by Mr. Fernandez's lawyers that for a fair trial they be allowed to use secret government data in his defense.
That's the level of absurdity facing new schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez as he delves into bureaucracy and red tape at the New York education headquarters.
Once it occurs the absurdity of both the 100 per cent cut-off for the unemployed person taking work and the exclusion of childless families would become apparent. Borrie is almost certain to advocate the integration of benefits and taxes for pensioners.
It strays from hyperbole to absurdity.
The absurdity on all these levels really gives man his full freedom." In 1985, Christo wrapped the almost 400-year-old Pont Neuf bridge in Paris with 440,000 square feet of champagne-colored fabric.
We deal with it as a color," he said. "There's a whole lot of absurdity in this; the height of kitsch.
The debate over the hyphen, characteristic both of Czechoslovak love of detail and absurdity, split the Czechs and Slovaks.
Reason tells me the notion of the novel, sure-fire fish attractor is an absurdity.
These characters do not have any single identity, and in fact one of the book's themes is the absurdity of America's obsession with the simple image a celebrity, through repeated exposure, is forced to project.
He said the absurdity of inaccurate maps had increased in recent times, when the Soviet Union has extremely detailed photographs taken from satellites in space.
John Boorman's new film, "Hope and Glory," is filled with moments like these, moments that distill the horror and the absurdity of war through a child's sensibility.
Paradox is piled on paradox, and double talk is elevated to the realm of supreme absurdity.
But this is a contradiction verging on an absurdity.
Besides, Sleepless In Seattle is all about the absurdity of romantic destiny as a concept. 'What we think is fate,' someone cracks, 'is just two neuroses knowing they're a perfect match.'
There's a sense of absurdity in this whole game." Campbell Soup Co., which has seen its cream-based soups maintain a lead over a low-sodium line, agrees.
"There's nothing like poking fun at something to show the absurdity of it," said Mrs. MAthews.
Such cultural activists have a point, beautifully exemplified by the absurdity of schoolchildren in post-colonial Francophone Africa learning to read with the standard old French primer that began: "Nos ancetres les Gaulois."
This case is remarkable not for the absurdity of the legal issue so much as for how seriously so many judges took it.
He rightly regards the dramatic fall in labour force participation by people in their 50s and 60s as 'a dangerous absurdity'.

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