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Preposterousness

Preposterous \Pre*pos"ter*ous\, a. [L. praeposterus; prae before + posterus coming after, latter. See Posterior.]

  1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. [Obs.]

    The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature.
    --Woodward.

  2. Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted. ``Most preposterous conclusions.''
    --Shak.

    Preposterous ass, that never read so far!
    --Shak.

    Syn: Absurd; perverted; wrong; irrational; foolish; monstrous. See Absurd. [1913 Webster] -- Pre*pos"ter*ous*ly, adv. - Pre*pos"ter*ous*ness, n.

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preposterousness

n. The quality of being preposterous.

Usage examples of "preposterousness".

Excess, delirium, anxiety, sublimity, preposterousness, undecidability, the mise en abîme of binary oppositions, the breakdown of representational order: these are all consequences -- or better, hi-tech "special effects" -- of presence itself, and not (as the deconstructionists too simply suppose) of the critique or deferral of presence.