absurdity

Preposition: of

• situation: The only way is to make an absurdity of a situation.
• life: The chapter on the absurdity of life without God was also powerful.
• war: Within the absurdity of a war in which we all risk to get lost.
• thing: Can we maybe take a minute to look at the absurdity of this whole thing.
• world: For Sartre this would be an example of the absurdity of the world.

Possessives

• life: This allows you to see life's absurdities through his eyes and laugh with him.

Converse of object

• expose: He used absurdity to expose absurdity in the world.
• highlight: Their plight highlights the absurdity of the rules of closed borders all over Europe.
• realize: I'd like to claim I realized the absurdity of this myself.
• illustrate: The final scene in the BBC production should illustrate the absurdity of the charge.
• reveal: Then I scratched a bit deeper to reveal the absurdity of the 9/11 commission, they really expect us to believe that stuff?
• believe: Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Adjective modifier

• manifest: But while Mr Blair has spoken of its ' manifest absurdity ' ( The Hague, January 1998 ).
• sheer: Thus, once again we encounter the sheer absurdity and nonsense advanced by pro-vivisectionists.
• inherent: But there is an inherent absurdity when you try to take a compliant approach.
• logical: In general, there is no good reason for thinking that reports of mystical experience must imply logical absurdity.
• apparent: Any attempt to imagine them will lead to apparent absurdity.

Noun used with modifier

• patent: It is a patent absurdity that our politics are based on the assumption that all Catholics want a united Ireland.