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nonabsurd

nonabsurd adjective: not absurd;.

Adjective

nonabsurd (comparative more nonabsurd, superlative most nonabsurd)

  1. Not absurd;
    • Thus a sociology of the absurd takes as its subject matter every person's quest for the nonabsurd. While trying to understand how modern man or woman achieves the nonabsurd, we happened to run across the writings of the Marquis de Sade.1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd, page 192
    • However, the intuition of the example only shows that between an absurd and a nonabsurd interpretation, the latter is to be chosen, other (global) things equal.2013, Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig, A Companion to Donald Davidson

Forms of nonabsurd

comparativemore nonabsurd
superlativemost nonabsurd

Origin of nonabsurd

From non- + absurd.

Questions about nonabsurd

What does nonabsurd mean?
Nonabsurd means not absurd;.
What part of speech is nonabsurd?
Nonabsurd is an adjective.

Words near nonabsurd in the dictionary

  1. nonabstinent
  2. nonabstract
  3. nonabstracted
  4. nonabstractive
  5. nonabstruse
  6. nonabsurd
  7. nonabulatory
  8. nonabundant
  9. nonabusable
  10. nonabuse
  11. nonabused

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