preposterousness
71nonsense — nonsense, twaddle, drivel, bunk, balderdash, poppycock, gobbledygook, trash, rot, bull are comparable when they mean something said or proposed which is senseless or absurd. Nonsense is the most general of these terms; it may be referred to… …
72absurdity — n 1. ridiculousness, ridiculosity, silliness, foolishness, folly, childishness, tomfoolery, ab surdness; ludicrousness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, senselessness; amphigory, bosh, poppycock, drivel, gibberish, balderdash, fiddle… …
73eccentricity — n 1. oddity, curiosity, rarity; irregularity, incongruity, variation, abnormality, discrepancy, difference, variance, dissimilitude, disparity, inconsistency; exception, singularity, particularity; idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, mannerism, quirk, twist …
74exorbitance — n 1. excessiveness, nimiety, extravagance, immoderateness, unreasonableness, undueness, inordinateness; outrageousness, preposterousness, monstrousness, rankness, egregiousness; redundancy, superfluity, supererogation, oversufficiency, overkill,… …
75folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
76foolishness — n 1. senselessness, meaninglessness, thoughtlessness, shallowness, vacantness, blankness, vacuousness, emptiness; vapidity, vapidness, insipidity, insipidness, flatness, dullness, tediousness; stupidity, asininity, imbecility, idioticalness,… …
77inanity — n 1. silliness, absurdity, absurdness, pointlessness, fatuousness, foolishness, Archaic. insip ience, folly; tomfoolery, foolery, fooling, clownery; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness; poppycock, amphigory,… …
78insanity — n 1. lunacy, derangement, madness, Psychiatry. dementia, dementedness, insaneness; distraction, disorientation, unbalance, unsoundness; mental illness, loss of reason, unsound mind, diseased mind; craziness, Sl. kookiness, Inf. nuttiness,… …
79intemperance — n 1. alcoholism, dipsomania, drunkenness, intoxication, inebriety, oenomania, crapulence; saturnalia, bacchanals, carousal, orgy, debauch, spree, Inf. bender, Sl. tear, Sl. binge. 2. self gratification, self indulgence, unrestraint;… …
80irrationality — n 1. illogic, illogicality, meaninglessness, extravagance, preposterousness; incredibleness, inconceivableness, unimaginableness, unbelievableness, implausibility, untenableness, questionableness. 2. lack of judgment, stupidity, brainlessness,… …
