absurdité
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde + -ité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Norwegian Bokmål: absurditet
Further reading
[edit]- “absurdité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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