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Insanity vs Absurdity - What's the difference?

insanity | absurdity | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between insanity and absurdity

is that insanity is the state of being insane; madness while absurdity is dissonance.

insanity

English

(wikipedia insanity)

Noun

  • The state of being insane; madness.

    • Antonyms

    * sanity

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    * insane

    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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