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# absurdity

«absurdity» in Mova's school dictionary: **the quality of being so silly or unreasonable that it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (absurdities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Absurdity is the quality of being so silly or unreasonable that it makes people laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#m1)

2) An absurdity is a silly thing that someone says or does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, the silly or unreasonable side of a story, such as a potter's son marrying a princess; the foolish antics of a character who never learns

### examples

- The king laughed at the absurdity of the plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#x1)
- Labakan's absurdities made the workmen giggle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#x2)
- She told so many absurdities that nobody believed her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#x3)
- The story is full of absurdity, and that is why it is funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «absurdity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/absurdity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.