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Absurdity vs Inanity - What's the difference?

absurdity | inanity |

In uncountable terms the difference between absurdity and inanity

is that absurdity is  The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment while inanity is the property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

As nouns the difference between absurdity and inanity

is that absurdity is dissonance while inanity is the property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

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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    inanity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
  • Something that is inane.
    • Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.