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Impropriety vs Absurdity - What's the difference?

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Impropriety is a related term of absurdity.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between impropriety and absurdity

is that impropriety is (uncountable) the condition of being improper while absurdity is (uncountable) the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment .

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between impropriety and absurdity

is that impropriety is (countable) an improper act while absurdity is (countable) that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction .

As nouns the difference between impropriety and absurdity

is that impropriety is (uncountable) the condition of being improper while absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance .

impropriety

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being improper.
  • (countable) An improper act.
  • Improper language.
  • 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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