Absurdity vs Ridiculousness - What's the difference?
absurdity | ridiculousness |
(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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(uncountable) The characteristic of being ridiculous.
(countable) The result of being ridiculous.
In countable|lang=en terms the difference between absurdity and ridiculousness
is that absurdity is (countable) that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction while ridiculousness is (countable) the result of being ridiculous.In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between absurdity and ridiculousness
is that absurdity is (uncountable) the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment while ridiculousness is (uncountable) the characteristic of being ridiculous.As nouns the difference between absurdity and ridiculousness
is that absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance while ridiculousness is (uncountable) the characteristic of being ridiculous.absurdity
English
Noun
- 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."
