Definition for AB-SURD'I-TY

AB-SURD'I-TY, n.

  1. The quality of being inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. Want of judgment, applied to men; want of propriety, applied to things. – Johnston.
  2. That which is absurd: in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men.

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