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Definitions for ridiculousness
ridicu·lous·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousnessnoun

    a message whose content is at variance with reason

Wiktionary

  1. ridiculousnessnoun

    The characteristic of being ridiculous.

  2. ridiculousnessnoun

    The result of being ridiculous.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ridiculousnessnoun

    The quality of being ridiculous.

    Etymology: from ridiculous.

    What sport do Tertullian, Minucius and Arnobius make with the images consecrated to divine worship? from the meanness of the matter they are made, the casualties of fire, and rottenness they are subject to, on purpose to represent the ridiculousness of worshipping such things. Edward Stillingfleet.

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  1. ridiculousness

    Ridiculousness refers to the quality or state of being absurd, laughable, or exceedingly foolish. It denotes something being preposterous to the point that it invites mockery or derision. It might also refer to a situation or action that is irrational or out of place and thus considered ridiculous.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ridiculousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ridiculousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ridiculousness in a Sentence

  1. Tim Stevens:

    There are rights, and there there's ridiculousness, they had muskets.

  2. Kathy Griffin:

    I am kicking the hornet’s nest, as much as I can, i think it’s important to lean into the controversy because I know so much more about it now. I think now enough time has passed where people are starting to see the ridiculousness of what happened to me, and they’re seeing other people that Trump has done it [too].

  3. James Corden:

    You want someone who is very comfortable and relaxed being themselves; Someone who will with joyous abandonment throw themselves into ridiculousness of signing at the top of their voice in a car, that’s what you want. You want someone who just goes for it.

  4. Ty Burrell:

    They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family.

  5. Tom Von Essen:

    You can’t make this up. The ridiculousness of what we get from our government. They will run the vaccine down to those lowlifes at Guantanamo Bay before every resident of the United States of America gets it is the theater of the absurd, it’s f---ing nuts.

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