Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AB-SURD'I-TY
AB-SURD'I-TY, n.
- 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.
- That which is absurd: in this sense it has a plural; the absurdities of men.
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