absurdnessn.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xxv. 170 Absurdnesse.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 477 The absurdnesse which wee suppose to be there [i.e. in Scripture], is but a seeming so to our ignorance.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xviii. 212 What they cannot vtter well in Latine, cause them first to do it naturally and liuely in English, and shew them your selfe the absurdnesse of their pronuntiation, by pronouncing foolishly or childishly, as they do.

1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxv. 436 The Holy Scripture it self doth plainly mock at the folly and absurdness of some mens opinions and doings.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Preposterousness, the having the wrong End forward, Absurdness, contrariety to Nature or Custom.

1799 J. Wood Gen. View Hist. Switzerland ii. ix. 360 The government of the Grisons..began to repent the absurdness of their conduct.

1833 New-Eng. Mag. June 457 I should almost as soon undertake to convince a lunatic of the absurdness of his imaginings, as to convert an Atheist.

1919 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 June ii. 2/2 I was among those who laughed at the absurdness of wearing furs in summer.

2009 A. Vadolas Perversion of Fascism i. ii. 58 Turning reason into irrationality and pure absurdness.