absurdité

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ap.syʁ.di.te/
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Rhymes: -e
Homophone: absurdités

Noun

absurdité f (countable and uncountable, plural absurdités)

(uncountable) absurdity; meaninglessness
l’absurdité de la vie ― the meaninglessness of life
(countable) a thing that is absurd
des absurdités ― nonsense

Related terms

absurdement

Descendants

→ Norwegian Bokmål: absurditet

Further reading

“absurdité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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