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Plural of absurdity

regular plural

The plural of absurdity is absurdities.

Forms of absurdity

Singularabsurdity /əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti/
Pluralabsurdities
Countablecountable and uncountable

Absurdities in a sentence

  • This mission is rotten with absurdities that stick in her throat, but they have to start somewhere.2015, Richard Beard, Acts of the Assassins, page 63. From the entry stick in someone's throat
  • But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book.1984, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, →ISBN, page 423. From the entry alogism
  • And lapsus linguæ are often accounted one of the pet absurdities of the Freudians.1915, Edwin B[issell] Holt, “The Doctrine of the ‘Wish’”, in The Freudian Wish and Its Place in Ethics, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and…. From the entry lapsus linguæ
  • But if you can convince people that two plus two equals five, you can make them believe absurdities.2022 August 12, Jan Jekielek, Jeff Minick, “The Erosion of Truth”, in The Epoch Times. From the entry two plus two equals five
  • Always the daring algorist, Euler occasionally trusted his formulas too far, and was unperturbed when they propesied material absurdities.2012, E. T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics, page 519. From the entry algorist

Meaning of absurdity

  1. noun That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
  2. noun The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
  3. noun Dissonance.

Full definition of absurdity

Questions about the plural of absurdity

What is the plural of absurdity?
The plural of absurdity is absurdities.
Is absurdity countable?
Absurdity is a countable and uncountable noun.

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