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Absurdity vs Irrationality - What's the difference?

absurdity | irrationality |

As nouns the difference between absurdity and irrationality

is that absurdity is dissonance while irrationality is the quality or state of being irrational; want of the faculty or the quality of reason; fatuity.

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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    irrationality

    English

    Noun

    (irrationalities)
  • The quality or state of being irrational; want of the faculty or the quality of reason; fatuity.
  • Something which is irrational or brought forth by irrational action, judgement, idea or thought.

    • Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * rationality

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