absurdity

It simultaneously reveals the absurdity of dictatorship and gives comfort to those languishing under an impossible reality.

He stops after a second, looks around him and laughs, apparently realizing the absurdity of the endeavor.

Outside of the absurdity of “blood splatter” flying through the air is the implication that Ebola can be “breathed” at all.

Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.

The absurdity of the prefix is immediately clear in that no-one ever speaks of “working fathers.”

"They make me feel injustice and look upon absurdity," replied this philosopher of thirteen.

Lucy looked at her cousin; the absurdity of the scene was too much for her; she closed the door and laughed till she cried.

But in what previous age could it have been used at all without evident absurdity?

As a religion Buddhism is an absurdity; in fact, it is no religion at all, only a system of moral philosophy.

Did not a famous theologian recognize the absurdity of admitting the existence of a God and arresting His course?