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 Translation for 'absurdity' from English to Ukrainian
NOUN1   an absurdity | absurdities
NOUN2   absurdity [quality] | -
SYNO absurdity | absurdness | fatuity | ...
абсурдність {ж}absurdity
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Translation for 'absurdity' from English to Ukrainian

absurdity
абсурдність {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • The comedy is largely reliant on absurdity and Okojo's tendency towards melodrama.
  • Moore's paradox concerns the apparent absurdity involved in asserting a first-person present-tense sentence such as "It is raining, but I do not believe that it is raining" or "It is raining, but I believe that it is not raining."
  • Even the most horrifying scenes are underlined by jokes or absurdity.
  • "For the purpose of demonstrating in dramatic terms the absurdity of language, Ionesco’s favourite weapon is the platitude."
  • The doctrine of absurdity holds that commonsense interpretations should be preferred in such cases, rather than literal readings.

  • Thomas Hobbes distinguished absurdity from errors, including basic linguistic errors as when a word is simply used to refer to something which does not have that name.
  • This text makes clear the absurdity of Kara's text and his obsession with the body.
  • The party selected its policies on the basis of their absurdity and their impracticality.
  • The band name is said to be an absurdity with no literal meaning disparaging ska music.
  • The provision suffered from considerable absurdity on the point of who the third parties were.

  • Bertels tried to defend his stance declaring about the methodological absurdity of classifying writers according to their ethnic or territorial affiliation.
  • The playwright's apparent familiarity with the absurdity of humanity and both the comedy and tragedy that stem from this absurdity have inspired succeeding playwrights centuries after his death.
  • Scott Green for Ain't It Cool News asserts that "Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu" "sets up an infinity effect of laughing at something terribly bleak, then feeling bad about finding mirth in sorrow, then laughing at the absurdity of it all, and so on" and concludes that while Junko Mizuno is a divisive creator, readers needing to "get" her work to appreciate it, the manga features enough dire absurdity that it will force readers to laugh.
  • The events of farce can be seen as the demonstration of absurdity, and the absurdity is the basis of the real-world scenario.
  • The film combines history, music, and a little absurdity to treat the subject of love, passion, and destiny.

  • Absurdistan is a fictitious country in which absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.
  • If absurdity is primitive, full explosion can also be stated as [...].
  • (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as [...] (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or "apagogical arguments", is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction.
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Contains inflection data from VESUM (Rysin, A., Starko, V. Large Electronic Dictionary of Ukrainian, Version 6.5.2. 2005-2024). Thank you!
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