Foolhardiness is a related term of absurdity.
As nouns the difference between foolhardiness and absurdity
is that
foolhardiness is the quality of being foolhardy while
absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance
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foolhardiness English
Noun
(en-noun)
The quality of being foolhardy.
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absurdity English
Noun
(obsolete, rare) Dissonance. [ ]
(countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. [ ]
* His travels were full of absurdities . - Johnson
(uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. [ ]
* The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. -
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- 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."
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