Absurdity
Nouns
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absurdity, absurdness etc. adj.
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imbecility etc. Imbecility. Folly
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alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense
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paradox, inconsistency
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stultiloquy, stultiloquence
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nugacity. blunder, muddle, bull
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Irishism, Hibernicism
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slipslop
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anticlimax, bathos
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sophism etc. Intuition. Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]. farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody
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farrago etc. (disorder) [Absence, or want of Order, etc.] Disorder
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extravagance, romance
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sciamachy. sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic. jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish etc. (no meaning) [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness
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exaggeration etc. Exaggeration
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moonshine, stuff
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mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, escapade.
Adjectives
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absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling
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self-annulling, self-contradictory
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macaronic, punning. foolish etc. Imbecility. Folly
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sophistical etc. Intuition. Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]
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unmeaning etc. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness
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without rhyme or reason
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fantastic.
Int
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fiddlededee!, pish!, pho! , in the name of the Prophet--figs! " [Horace Smith].