absurdness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for absurdness
Noun
  • Occupying a two-mile run from Beach Boulevard south to the Newport Beach line, State Beach is family friendly and features many of the amenities of its northern neighbor without the volume of crowds, hassles or craziness.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • On Maura’s plan to protect people’s vaccines against Robert Kennedy’s craziness, crickets.
    Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Consider the absurdity of carving a single oozing arancini into three or four pieces, doling out two measly salad leaves each to a foursome, or hacking a pristine fish fillet into chum for five.
    Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The movie works, no question, even at the peak of its absurdity.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Also along for the ride is Anthony Carrigan as the enigmatic Bodie, dragged into the fray as the mystery unravels into madness.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That’s because just two weeks separate the regular season from October madness, and MLB’s playoff race could not be more chaotic.
    Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No, but the line captures the aristocracy’s witlessness.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Not so much by her response as by my own foolishness.
    Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The foolishness of the governor’s gibe was underscored by the progressive, staunchly anti-Trump Democratic mayor of San Jose.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The previous sentence illustrates the inanity of my desire.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Absurdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absurdness. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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