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Absurdity vs Puerility - What's the difference?

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Absurdity is a related term of puerility.


As nouns the difference between absurdity and puerility

is that absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance while puerility is the state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.

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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    puerility

    English

    Noun

  • The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
  • That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
  • See also

    * puerilism