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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ad absurdum en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad absurdum (“to absurdity”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) To the point of absurdity.
    • What the Squarepusher-type drill and bass artists have responded to and exaggerated ad absurdum is only one aspect of jungle: the music's complexity. 2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 374:

Deriveds

reductio ad absurdum