absurdity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ABSURD'ITY, noun 1. The quality of being inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. Want of judgment, applied to men; want of propriety, applied to things. 2. That which is absurd; in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men.
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