absurdity

noun

Etymology: First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.

1. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

   “And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …”

2. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

   “The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number”

   “Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."”

3. Dissonance.