absurdity

UK /əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti/ US /æbˈsɝd.ɪ.ti/
noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …

2

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number

Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

3

Dissonance.

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