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absurdity|æbˈsɜːdɪtɪ|
[a. Fr. absurdité, f. L. absurditāt-em, n. of state f. absurd-us: see absurd and -ity.]
†1. Mus. Lack of harmony, untunefulness.
1674Playford Musick iii. 37 In the last disallowance, which is when the upper part stands, and the lower part falls from a lesser third to a fifth, many have been deceived, their ears not finding the absurdity of it.
2. The state or quality of being absurd; opposition to obvious reason or truth; folly.
1528More Heresyes ii. Wks. 1557, 184/2 Which argument hath..much inconuenience and absurdite folowyng therupon. 1615Crooke Body of Man 507 In that he [Aristotle] hath written concerning the vse of the brain..he cannot be redeemed from palpable absurdity. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 71 ⁋13 Divines have shewn the absurdity of delaying reformation. 1798Ferriar Eng. Histor. 248 Caprice..prefers absurdity of invention to correct imitation. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 269 His Koran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity.
3. Anything absurd; a statement, action, or custom opposed to obvious truth or sound reason; a logical contradiction; a foolish error.
1528More Heresyes i. Wks. 1557, 138/2 All whiche absurdities & vnreasonable folyes appeareth as well in the worshippe of our ymages, as in the Painims ydolles. 1570Billingsley Euclid. i. i. 10 Of a demonstration leading to an..absurditie, you may haue an example in the fourth proposition. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. (1656) i. §49 Moses..committed a grosse absurdity in Philosophy, when with these eyes of flesh he desired to see God. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. viii. 168 The captain hearing me utter these absurdities concluded I was raving. 1846Mill Logic (1868) i. iv. §3. 89 At first sight this division has the air of an absurdity. 1879McCarthy Hist. own Times I. ii. 10 It is not that the demands of the Chartists were anachronisms or absurdities. |