[f. ABSURD + -NESS.] The quality or state of being absurd; absurdity.
1587. Golding, Mornay’s Chr. Relig. (1617), xxvi. 458. The absurdnesse which we suppose to be there [in Scripture], is but a seeming so to our ignorance.
1612. Brinsley, Gram. Sch., 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.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk and Selv., Cont. To make the best he can of the scurvy recoil of his absurdness and impossibility.
