absurdité
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde + -ité.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.syʁ.di.te/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (Paris) (file) - 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
Descendants
- → Norwegian Bokmål: absurditet
Further reading
- “absurdité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.