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)

1. (uncountable) absurdity; meaninglessness

   l’absurdité de la vie ― the meaninglessness of life

2. (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.