The quality of being completely unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate; something that is ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable.
From Latin 'absurditas', from 'absurdus' meaning 'out of tune, unreasonable', literally 'deaf to' (from 'ab-' meaning away + 'surdus' meaning deaf). The musical metaphor suggests something discordant.
The Latin root of absurdity literally means 'deaf to reason' or 'out of tune', revealing how ancient Romans understood illogical behavior as a kind of cognitive deafness - an inability to hear the harmony of rational thought.
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