absurdity

absurd | American Dictionary

absurd
adjective
us/əbˈsɜrd, æb-, -ˈzɜrd/
ridiculous or completely unreasonable:
[ + to infinitive ]It is absurd for the council to cut taxes without proposing another way to raise money.

absurdity

noun[ C/U ]us/əbˈsɜr·dɪ·t̬i, æb-, -ˈzɜrd-/
It's a serious situation but with some absurdity, and managing the balance between serious and funny is a delicate matter.

Examples of absurd

absurd
Using cooperative agents in a self-interested negotiation context results in absurd behavior of the agents.
However, readers should not be deterred by the absurd new subtitle from investigating this interesting and entertaining book.
At other times, or in other moods, it seems to me absurd and sentimental, an inability to face the harsh facts of human life.
Nothing begins or ceases to be, which is absurd.
The conceit on which the play rests, confusion of dog with baby, is fittingly absurd, but hilarity should not disguise the more serious political note.
The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last.
The problem though is that the ragga vocal is extremely unconvincing and comes across as merely comical and absurd.
To begin with, the moral crusaders combined ' fanaticism ' with ' passion ', starting with ' trifling demands ' but building by a psychology of extremism to absurd, totalistic claims.
Given this, moreover, one could argue that the above scenarios are implausible because they have absurd implications.
The absurd scenarios that often remained incomprehensible to consciousness in waking life were short-circuited with certain characteristics of the child's thought.
Even though some of his formulations were exaggerated or absurd, eastern industrialists overlooked minor deficiencies in their search for protectionism's intellectual justification.
If, however, the time slices know the corresponding proper preferences, absurd things follow.
By the 1980 s the idea that it was a factor in prompting hostilities - however distinguished its earlier devotees - seemed absurd.
In accordance with one's expectations, the asymptotic method has no validity in the regime of small r, and gives absurd results.
If this conclusion is rejected as absurd, it again follows that for uniform basic flows the characteristics all pass through disturbance.
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