ABSURDITY

n. 1 folly, silliness, ridiculousness, foolishness, ludicrousness, nonsense, senselessness, meaninglessness, illogicality, irrationality, unreasonableness, incongruity, stupidity, Colloq craziness, nuttiness , Chiefly Brit daftness Many comics rely on absurdity rather than cleverness for humour 2 paradox, self-contradiction, error, fallacy No one can abide the man's pretentiousness and other absurdities