Usually means: Contradiction to reason, logic, sense.
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  1. absurdity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. absurdity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absurdity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. absurdity: Vocabulary.com
  5. Absurdity, absurdity: Wordnik
  6. absurdity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. absurdity: Wiktionary
  8. absurdity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. absurdity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. absurdity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Absurdity, absurdity: Dictionary.com
  12. absurdity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. absurdity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Absurdity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Absurdity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. absurdity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. absurdity: Rhymezone
  18. Absurdity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. absurdity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. absurdity: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. absurdity: Free Dictionary
  22. absurdity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. absurdity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. absurdity: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. absurdity: Legal dictionary

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  1. absurdity: Encyclopedia

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  1. absurdity: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (absurdity)

noun:  (countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Dissonance.

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