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Definition: ABSURDITIES |
ABSURDITIESPlural1. Of Absurdity |
Date "ABSURDITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: ABSURDITIES |
| English words defined with "ABSURDITIES": Southcottian. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Fyodor Dostoyevski | The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. |
Sir William Osler | The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. |
Voltaire | If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may be satisfied, when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheepcote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole county numerous in people, and powerful in riches. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These absurdities, these poverties, the man who has never heard them, the man who has never uttered them, is an imbecile and a wicked man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ABSURDITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABSURDITIES" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ABSURDITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | '" (Absurdity, Farcical). (various references) | |
German | Absurditäten. (various references) | |
Greek | γελοιότητες. (various references) | |
Italian | assurdita\ (absurdness, nonsense). (various references) | |
Korean | 부조리 (Absurdity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absurditiesay.(various references) | |
Spanish | disparates (a load of piffle, balderdash, humbug, jazz, nonsense). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ABSURDITIES" (pronounced ubser"dutēz) |
| 5 | -d u t ē z | commodities, liquidities, oddities, rigidities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commonalities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: absurdest, absurdist, diatribes, satirised. | |
-3 letters: abstruse, airbuses, bursitis, bustards, bustiers, dabsters, daubiest, daubries, diarists, diasters, diatribe, diestrus, disabuse, disaster, disburse, disrates, disturbs, diuresis, radiuses, redbaits, satirise, seabirds, sidebars, studiers, sturdies, subedits, subideas, subsider, sudaries, surbased, tribades. | |
-4 letters: abiders, absurds, abusers, airiest, arbutes, aridest, assured, astride, aurists, baiters, barites, basters, bedsits, bestirs, bestrid, bestuds, biassed, birdies, bisters, bistred, bistres, braised, braises, brassed, brassie, breasts, bruised, bruises, bruited, burdies, bursate, bursted, busiest, bustard, busters, bustier, dabster, dairies, daisies, darbies, daubers, daubier, dauties, diaries, diarist, diaster, dirties, disbars, disrate, disseat, dissert, disturb, ditsier, dusters, dustier, rebaits, redbait, residua, rubasse, rubiest, sardius, satires, sauries, seabird, serdabs, sidebar, staider, strides, studier, studies, subarid, subedit, subidea, subside, subsite, sudsier, suiters, surbase, tardies, terbias, tidiers, tirades, tissued, tribade, trussed. | |
-5 letters: abider, abides, absurd, abused, abuser, abuses, adieus, aiders, airbus, airest, airted, arbute, ardebs, arises, asides, assert, assure, asters, audits, aurist, baited, baiter, bardes, barest, barite, basest, basset, basted, baster, bastes, beards, beasts, beauts, bedsit, bestir, bestud, biased, biases, biders, bidets, birdie, birses, bister, bistre, biters, braids, braise, breads, breast, brides, bruise, bruits, bruted, brutes, burdie, burets, buried, buries, bursae, bursas, burses, bursts, busied, busier, busies, bussed, busted, buster, daises, dassie, daters, dauber, daubes, dautie, deairs, debars, debits, debris, debuts, deists, derats, desist, diesis, direst, disbar, disuse, driest, druses, duress, duster, duties, estrus, ibises, irades, irides, irised, irises, issued, issuer, rabies, radius, raised, raises, rebait, rebids, rebuts, redias, redubs, resaid, resids, resist, rubati, rubied, rubies, rudest, russet, rusted, sabers, sabirs, sabred, sabres, sadist, satire, sauted, sautes, serais, serdab, siesta, sieurs, sister, sistra, sitars, stades, stairs, stared, stares, steads, striae, stride, subers, subsea, subset, sudser, suited, suiter, suites, surest, sutras, tabers, tabued, tarsus, tassie, teiids, terais, terbia, tibiae, tibias, tidier, tidies, tirade, tissue, trades, treads, triads, tribes, tsades, tsadis, tsuris, tubers, turbid, tussar, tusser, urases, urates, urbias, uredia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: distributaries, insubordinates, subsidiarities. | |
+4 letters: disequilibrates. | |
+5 letters: undesirabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 53 55 52 44 49 54 49 45 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ... ..- .-. -.. .. - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000010 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B S U R D I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0053 0055 0052 0044 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3536535552384354433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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