Synonyms for absurdity
Most common
silliness ridiculousness senselessness foolishness non-sense drivel
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Silliness
silliness, ridiculousness, senselessness, foolishness, irrationality, incongruity, folly, unreasonableness, ineptitude, extravagance, fatuity, preposterousness, fatuousness, absurdness rare
2. Drivel
non-sense, drivel, balderdash, rigmarole, rigamarole US, mumbo-jumbo, stuff, prattle, rubbish, fudge, galimatias, skimble-skamble, twaddle, piffle, hogwash, blather, gibberish, humbug, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, hocus-pocus, malarkey informal, palaver, jargon
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
- n. 2
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
Forms
- Plural
- absurdities → sillinesses, ridiculousnesses, senselessnesses, foolishnesses…
Example sentences
- foolishness I'm getting endlessly annoyed by this foolishness.
- silliness The woman had a masculine silliness.
- ridiculousness The ridiculousness of that movie is impressive.
- senselessness The senselessness of the act appalled him.
- drivel Such drivel. And to top it off, you believe her?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| absurdity | steady | |
| foolishness | rising | |
| silliness | rising | |
| ridiculousness | rising | |
| senselessness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- stuff1, folly2, fudge1
- 6 letters
- jargon2, drivel2, humbug2, piffle
- 7 letters
- rubbish2, paradox3, fallacy3, hogwash2, prattle2, blather2, palaver, twaddle2, fatuity
- 8 letters
- malarkey3
- 9 letters
- gibberish3, silliness3, rigmarole
- 10 letters
- ineptitude4, balderdash3, rigamarole, absurdness, galimatias
- 11 letters
- foolishness3, incongruity5, fatuousness, ludicrosity
- 12 letters
- extravagance4, gobbledygook4, gobbledegook
- 13 letters
- irrationality6, senselessness
- 14 letters
- ridiculousness, nonsensicality
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (folly2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- absurdité
- Italiano
- assurdità
- Deutsch
- Absurdität
- Català
- absurditat